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Arianna Davis
Books & Art
How To Live Boldly, Just Like Frida Kahlo
Arianna Davis
6 Mar 2020
Beauty
Hair Is A Major Obstacle To Exercise For Black Women — But We Ran A 10K Anyway
Arianna Davis
22 Aug 2018
Beauty
How I Trained For A 10K Without Washing My Natural Hair Every Day
Arianna Davis
21 Aug 2018
Music
Meet Kali Uchis, One Of 2018’s Buzziest Artists
"Sometimes women like me have to pretend to be more confident than we really feel just to amp ourselves up," says the genre-shattering rising star. "I want
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
The Aces Are The Next Big Thing — But They're
Not
Like H...
The Come Up is Refinery29’s series featuring rising female artists who are as badass and inspiring as their music is. Don't miss our first and secon
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment News
Actually, Meghan Markle Isn't The First Black Royal Family Member
In the crazy times that we're living in, there's been one piece of news that everyone is rejoicing about this week: Prince Harry's engagemen
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Arianna Davis
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royal wedding
Why I'm So Proud Meghan Markle Made The Royal Wedding Unapologeti...
My father is black, and my mother is Puerto Rican. As a biracial woman, I'm very familiar with questions like “What are you?” “But w
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
What It’s Really Like To Be A Kanye West Fan Right Now
Anyone who knows me knows what an intense, unabashed Kanye West fan I am. So they might’ve found it odd that in the past couple of weeks, I’ve been qui
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Arianna Davis
Work & Money
The
Real
Reasons We Don't Want To Reveal Our Salaries To...
There are few topics considered more taboo than money. I don’t discuss my salary with loved ones let alone coworkers, and I’d never really given much t
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment News
Who Actually Came Up With "Okurr," Cardi B Or Khloé Kardashian?
In case you've missed it, “okay” has recently received a long overdue makeover. The simple word has been transformed from a basic staccato
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Arianna Davis
Music
John Legend Just Delivered Your Favourite New Wedding Song & Video
John Legend knows a thing or two about a great wedding song. But while his classics like “All Of Me” and “Ordinary People” are perfect for first da
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Arianna Davis
US News
The Beyoncé-Quoting Activist Who’s Changing Political Commentary
In our series This Is 30, Arianna Davis sets out to dispel the idea that turning 30 means it's time to panic. Throughout her own 30th year, she'l
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
How Hayley Kiyoko Became Pop Music's "Lesbian Jesus"
The Come Up is Refinery29’s new series featuring rising female artists who are as badass and inspiring as their music is. Check out our first instalment.
by
Arianna Davis
World News
Michelle Obama Talks To R29 About The Power of Girls' Education
For International Women's Day, Michelle Obama and the Obama Foundation teamed up with Refinery29 to shine a light on the importance and urgency of empoweri
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Arianna Davis
Music
Bruno Mars Is The Least Of Our Cultural Appropriation Problems
Bruno Mars has been in the news the past couple of days. And not from a headlining performance or a controversial interview — but, of course, a viral Twi
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Arianna Davis
Movies
Please Don't Compare
A Wrinkle In Time
To
Black Pant...
Black Panther has been dominating box offices for four weeks straight, and there's no question that it's still a pop culture phenomenon. This wee
by
Arianna Davis
Movies
What It Was Like To
Finally
See A Movie Hero That Looks ...
It was less than five minutes into A Wrinkle In Time that I started crying. It's a vibrant, delightful young adult adventure, so it might sound odd th
by
Arianna Davis
International Women's Day
Michelle Obama Talks To A Girl From Chicago About Why Education I...
For International Women's Day, Michelle Obama and the Obama Foundation teamed up with Refinery29 to shine a light on the importance and urgency of empoweri
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Arianna Davis
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International Women's Day
Michelle Obama Talks To A Girl From Nepal About Why Education Is ...
For International Women's Day, Michelle Obama and the Obama Foundation teamed up with Refinery29 to shine a light on the importance and urgency of empoweri
by
Arianna Davis
International Women's Day
Michelle Obama Talks To A Girl From Ghana About Why Education Is ...
For International Women's Day, Michelle Obama and the Obama Foundation teamed up with Refinery29 to shine a light on the importance and urgency of empoweri
by
Arianna Davis
Entertainment
Behind The Scenes On The Magical Set Of
A Wrinkle In Time
At the Santa Clarita, California, filming location of A Wrinkle In Time last February, there was an unmistakable electric aura in the air, as though the en
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Arianna Davis
Oscars
This Year's Oscars Were Embarrassingly White, Male, & Out Of Touch
At Sunday night's Oscars, the Academy awarded former NBA star Kobe Bryant for his work as the writer and star of the animated short Dear Basketball. H
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Arianna Davis
Black Is The New Black
The Role Model: Yvonne Orji
With Black Is The New Black, R29’s Black writers spotlight 20 women who are inspiring us right now — Black women who are kicking down the doors of thei
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
Refinery29 Celebrates 20 Black Women You Need To Know Right Now
At Refinery29, we wanted to make sure that the current long-awaited cultural awakening to the power of Black women is not just a "moment" that will be forg
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Arianna Davis
Movies
The Visionary: Dee Rees
With Black Is The New Black, R29’s Black writers spotlight 20 women who are inspiring us right now — Black women who are kicking down the doors of thei
by
Arianna Davis
Entertainment
How Gugu Mbatha-Raw Is Shattering Hollywood’s Glass Ceilings
In Hollywood, black female actresses have been typecast since the beginning. There’s the sassy sidekick, the around-the-way girl, and of course, the mamm
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Arianna Davis
Music
How 30-Year-Old Rihanna Changed The Music Industry
Rihanna has been hailed as a fashion powerhouse and beauty mogul. GIFs of the bad gal offering up an epic side eye through a car window or twerking in a se
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment
Black Panther
's Breakout Star Letitia Wright Is No Disne...
In 2006, a 12-year-old Letitia Wright was inspired to chase her dreams while watching Keke Palmer portray a spelling bee champ in the movie Akeelah And The
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Arianna Davis
Movies
The Mind Behind The Visuals Of
Lemonade
&
Moonlight ...
There are many elements of Marvel's Black Panther that make it sure to be a blockbuster: Its historic undertaking as the first-ever major Black superh
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Arianna Davis
Entertainment News
All The Theories We Have So Far On Kylie's Baby Name, Stormi
On February 6, two days after announcing that she'd privately given birth to a baby girl on February 1 after months of speculation, Kylie Jenner annou
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Arianna Davis
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