Karena Evans's New Video for Drake Puts Pop to the Bechdel Test
Director Karena Evans has hereby overthrown the rule of sweatpants boner men over music videos and replaced them with critical thinkers. Long may she reign.
Oprah's Time's Up Interview: How to Rehab Bad Men?
This morning, CBS broadcast a star-filled “Time’s Up” panel Oprah hosted on the day after she gave the rousing Golden Globes “Time’s Up” speech which repeatedly hit the phrase “time’s up” in its crescendos. The panel included famed Time’s Up members Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman,…
Tracee Ellis Ross Has a Children's Book for Handsy Men Who Don't Know How to Act
On Tuesday night, Tracee Eliis Ross filled in for Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as he was home with his baby who has undergone another heart surgery. After doing the traditional late night monologue, Ross said that, as a woman who had been given a big platform on the show, she wanted to address our current news…
Tracee Ellis Ross Provides Crucial Context to the Tale of Diana Ross's Lost Fanny Pack
If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it’s yours. That’s true of many things (significant others, boomerangs), and less true of others (house cats, the contents of Pandora’s Box). But when it comes to fanny packs, specifically that belonging to living legend Diana Ross, it turns out that those sage…
Which Outfit From Tracee Ellis Ross's New Collection Will You Wear to the Holiday Party?
In the next two months, you will be forced to make the least important decision of the year, which is choosing a holiday party dress that’s equitably stylish, cool, cheap and perhaps professional.
Tracee Ellis Ross Makes Vogue's '73 Questions'Â Series Fun Again
Tracee Ellis Ross is a true delight, weathering the storm of Vogue’s inane and occasionally mind-numbing series in which a cameraman follows a famous person around asking a set of 73 agreed-upon questions with zest, vim, and vigor.
I Too Would Steal Clothes From Diana Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross, the daughter of a legend and an icon herself, made the sensible choice to go “shopping” in her mom Diana Ross’ closet as a child.
Tracee Ellis Ross Confirms That Walking Around in a Comme des Garçons Art Gown Is Not Easy
A lot of boring celebs dared to attend a Met Gala honoring visionary designer Rei Kawakubo wearing some boring shit, but Tracee Ellis Ross was not one of them. The fashion plate was one of the few attendees (Rihanna, Helen Lasichanh, Caroline Kennedy) who actually wore a creation from Comme des Garçons, and she…
Tracee Ellis Ross On Accepting Her Nice Big Ass: 'I've Been At Odds With My Body For Many Years'
The so-called golden age of ass has made big butts desired and celebrated in ways we know they very much weren’t for black women growing up. A good friend of mine, Tracee Ellis Ross, touched on this childhood insecurity in a recent interview.
Tracee Ellis Ross Just Won Her First Golden Globe For Black-ish
Just three months after receiving her first Emmy for her work on ABC’s Black-ish, Tracee Ellis Ross has received her first Golden Globe. After nearly two decades appearing on television (she starred in BET’s highly successful Girlfriends for eight years), it’s about time.
Adults Ruin the Mannequin Challenge
Why do adults blink so much?
Stephen Colbert Asks Tracee Ellis Ross If He Can Be Black-ish
Apparently, Stephen Colbert loves asking cast members of the TV show Black-ish what such a bizarre, incomprehensible word could mean. He’s heard “black” before, and the colloquial add-on “ish,” but combined? Luckily for him, Tracee Ellis Ross has both patience and the desire to promote her show.
Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris: 'I Will Be So Happy When Diversity Is Not a Word'
In any discussions about diversity, people of color tend to bear the burden of the conversation when it should be the other way around. Black-ish creator and writer Kenya Barris was openly perturbed about this issue during a recent panel.
Tracee Ellis Ross and Paul Wall Are the BFFs You Didn't Know You Needed
In today’s Tweet Beat, Paul and Tracee kick it, Reese Witherspoon mourns and Chris Brown is making some changes.
Tracee Ellis Ross Had the Greatest 18th Birthday I've Ever Seen
In today’s Tweet Beat, Tracee Ellis Ross was the luckiest teen in the world, Spencer Pratt gives up easily and my mother would have murdered me if I had done what the Kardashians did to Kris Jenner.
Last Night's Black-ish Gracefully Bashed Black Republicans
In an episode that graciously skated around party politics, Wednesday night’s Black-ish took on the notion of the rare Black Republican. The problematic issue at hand: Junior joining the Young Republicans Club.
Anna Faris and Chris Pratt Nail the Awkward Family PhotoÂ
In today’s Tweet Beat Anna Faris and Chris Pratt continue their adorable streak, Amy Schumer and Tracee Ellis Ross look great together and Ashton Kutcher gets philosophical.
An Interview With Stacy Beverly, Costume Designer for Black-ish
On ABC's hit series Black-ish, about an extended upper-middle-class family going through typical suburban family motions with a gimlet eye towards race, characters have an incredible sense of style that sets the tone for the show. Colors are bright, styles are simultaneously nuanced and over the top, while the…
Diversity on TV Is Scary, Reports White Woman
On Tuesday, Deadline Hollywood's Nellie Andreeva dissected the swell of actors of color in television's casting rooms and leading roles, writing that minorities might be snatching too many jobs. I mean, what are the white actors supposed to do in this kind of climate?
All the Enviable Looks at Essence's Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon
Essence held its eighth annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon in Beverly Hills on Thursday. Two-thirds of the outfits have already been stolen by me and I'm not sorry. Here are some of the outfits—originally worn by the likes of Laverne Cox, Tracee Ellis Ross and Teyonah Parris—that are now in my closet.
