For years, Tracee Ellis Ross has been known for her bold beauty choices—not just when it came to fashion and makeup, but more notably in terms of her hair. I mean, look at the material. Ross’s approach to her hair is undoubtedly innovative, but she’s clear to identify that the styles she’s known for are part of a much longer history of Black hair and Black beauty.
“This is not some new phenomenon. Braids are not new. Cornrows are not new. Twists are not new. Bantu knots are not new. If our hair could talk, it would tell you of our legacy. Black beauty is timeless and holds such a story that I am so grateful to be a part of, and to continue allowing it to unfold through me. Black women and our hair have been at the center of social, cultural, political, and economic revolutions and movements through time. We hold so much power in our beauty.”
On the ‘our story’ page of the Pattern Beauty website, it reads: “Don’t feel the need to “tame”, “control” or “stifle” your curls & coils. Let them free.” [Elle]
In case you also can’t get enough of Tracee’s hair in this shot.
Page Six reports that
R. Kelly, the R&B singer and alleged sexual predator, has been
placed in solitary confinement for protection purposes after he was attacked by a fellow prisoner in his cell in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. Kelly is currently in prison awaiting trial on a number of
child sex abuse charges, but some of his fans have chosen to still support him. Just a week ago, there was reportedly “Free R. Kelly”
protests in Chicago, where people demanded “justice” for the singer (?????????). It’s astonishing, the lengths people will go to justify and excuse the behavior of even the most horrific of alleged abusers.
Apparently, the attack occurred because the other prisoner was angry over recent lockdowns caused by “Free R. Kelly” protestors outside the prison.
“My understanding is, everytime there is a pro-R. Kelly protest outside of the jail, they lock down the entire facility,” the lawyer said during a brief interview.
“When they do this, inmates don’t get their commissary, they don’t get their shower, stuff like that and since they’re fairly sporadic anyway, they get upset. So they’re penalizing everyone in the facility because people are protesting in support of Kelly.”
Incarceration is deeply inhumane, and it’s horrifying (though not surprising) to learn that all of the other prisoners in this federal prison are being deprived of basic necessities just because there are people foolish enough to continue to support a man accused of such horrific acts of sexual violence. [Page Six]
- The internet has rediscovered clips from when Shemar Moore was a Soul Train judge in the early 00s, and they are delightful. [Bossip]
- Halle Berry wants to represent herself in the final stages of her divorce. [Vanity Fair]
- Apparently Brad Pitt was spotted out with his new boo Nicole Poturalski months before the news of them dating broke. [Us]