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Pretty in Any Color: Women in Basketball Make the Style Rules
W.N.B.A. players, with a maximum base salary of about $230,000, earn far less than their millionaire counterparts in the N.B.A., making marketing dollars even more important. The W.N.B.A. has a pool of $1 million that it must spend on marketing deals for players, and each team has to spend between $50,000 and $100,000 per year […]
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The Man Behind Fashion’s Most Famous Bob
“I just have so much energy to create. And I’d keep going, too, if I hadn’t run out of space,” he said. Elsewhere in his home, there were cloudy resin pour paintings; blown-up photographs he’d taken with a disposable camera when he was 15; and a pair of awards for two short films he directed […]
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F.D.A. Approves Alopecia Drug That Restores Hair Growth in Many Patients
The disease can vary in severity, but for some, it can be life-altering — a total loss of body hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, even nose hair and hair in the ears. And, until recently, for those with alopecia areata, there was no treatment to make the hair grow back. But on Monday, the Food […]
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One Last Takeaway From ‘The Slap’: Leave Black Women’s Hair Alone
Generations of Black American women recall weekend afternoons spent watching an iron comb glow like molten lava on the stove burner. We waited for our mothers to wield the hot comb like a weapon, ready to press our thicket of coils into submission to make us more culturally palatable. Even at a young age, I […]
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Roxane Gay: Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not
Ms. Pinkett Smith has alopecia, a condition resulting in hair loss that disproportionately affects Black women. It was in poor taste for Mr. Rock to poke fun at her hair. He has reportedly said he did not know about her alopecia, but he probably at least knew that the joke would sting, since he produced […]
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Chin Hairs: Why Women Get Them and How to Remove
Q: Why do women sprout chin hairs as they age — and what’s the best way to remove them so they don’t grow back darker and thicker? If you’re a woman who is growing new, unwanted chin hairs, the first thing you should know is that most of the time, “this is perfectly normal,” said […]
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