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Young African American businesswoman working at home and looking at some documents while sitting on the floor By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
I don’t know about you, but once the temperature hits about 70 degrees, I want to reset my entire life.
I start going room by room and closet by closet, to renew and refresh my space for spring. There’s just something
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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Be honest. How many networking events have you left feeling like you wasted a good outfit?
Caitlyn Kumi did. So she did something about it.
The result is Miss EmpowHer, the women’s media platform and events community she founded in June 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, while she was still in college at UNC Chapel Hill. It started
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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
I turn 39 this year, and it feels like out of nowhere perimenopause has officially entered my friend group chat.
Not as something we’re experiencing yet, necessarily, but as this looming thing we’re suddenly bracing for. So getting on the phone with Misty Copeland, who is just a few years older at 43, and hearing her say she hadn’t
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MIAMI, FLORIDA – MARCH 19: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers looks on against the Miami Heat during the fourth quarter at Kaseya Center on March 19, 2026 in Miami, Florida.NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 3, 2026
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Rihanna at the AWGE fashion show as part of RTW Fall 2026 on February 13, 2026 in New York, New York. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
If you’ve ever wished you could text a beauty expert late at night to ask which Fenty foundation shade matches your undertone or which lip combo will last through
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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 2, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Before we get into the nitty gritty, I’ll lead with a spoiler alert: So far since adding this fragrance to my collection, I have gotten compliments while shopping for snacks at Trader Joe’s, before (and after) my workout at Orangetheory, walking into my doctor’s appointment, and from friends and family who smell me in a new scent so
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SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 08: Jay-Z looks on prior to the start of Super Bowl LXbetween the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots at Levi’s Stadium on February 08, 2026 in Santa Clara, California.(Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) By Javian Baker, Ph.D. ·Updated April 2, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Lately, it feels like everyone has something to say about billionaires. And more often than
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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated March 31, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
In 2009, Cameka Smith got laid off from Chicago Public Schools and did something most people probably would have talked her out of. She was 29, had a Master’s degree, had been working since she was 12, and going back to find another job was basically a given.
Instead, she gave herself a year to figure it out.
“I’m going