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The highly-anticipated, highly-hyped Barbie film is currently shooting, and the first photos from set have emerged of Margot Robbie in character as the iconic Malibu doll. Robbie’s transformation is spot-on with long platinum hair, curtain bangs, and an all-pink ensemble featuring a halter top and pink bell bottom pants adorned with stars on the flare.
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Carrie Underwood has won American Idol, numerous Country Music Awards, Grammys…the list is never-ending. Now, ELLE is seeing if Carrie can add Song Association to her roster. Singing some of her biggest hits like “Before He Cheats” and “Cowboy Casanova,” follow along as she faces the internet’s favorite game and talks about her upcoming album,
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, ordering that “all persons held as slaves” should “be free.” But some enslavers across the Deep South refused to comply, and many Black people remained in slavery—completely unaware of their new freedom. Finally, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, delivered an
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Most people know Quannah Chasinghorse for her command of runways and iconic Met Gala looks—“but she’s also a hunter,” her mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, wants you to know. She’s speaking beside Quannah at an event before the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of a short film that portrays her daughter’s dexterity in navigating life as a high
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Betty Gilpin has what perhaps could be called character dysmorphia: the feeling that, as an actress, her body isn’t right for the roles she wants to play. That’s not exactly a groundbreaking notion in Hollywood; actresses have complained for decades about looks-based typecasting and its correlation to the glut of two-dimensional women onscreen. But Gilpin—the
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Black women are three times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The reasons are wide-ranging, from what resources are available to the ongoing issue of bias and racism in healthcare. Aftershock, an eye-opening new documentary, aims to shed new light on this massive problem. From co-directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula
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