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Cover Story / Kellita Smith: Smith really opens up about her near death experience, anticipating the role that will send her to the Oscar’s and much more! Read more ...

Music / FKA Twigs: Twigs’ art is not of the stripped-back, real me, acoustics-and-grubby-jeans variety. She arrived on the scene in 2012, whispering like Tricky, clattering like the xx, ... Read more ...

Health / Dr. Sherita Hill Golden: Dr. Golden has had a successful career as a physician-scientist focused on diabetes epidemiology, health services research and disparities. Read more ...

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The Arts / Dionne Figgins: Ballet Tech, which each year introduces hundreds of New York City public school children to the beauty and rigor of classical dance, today announced Dionne D. Figgins as its new Artistic Director Read more ...

Special Edition / Black History: Mary Elizabeth (Eliza) Mahoney becoming the first Black woman to graduate from an American school of nursing. ... Read more ...

Fashion / Ashunta Sheriff: Ashunta's has worked with some of today's hottest and biggest stars such as Zendaya, Janelle Monae, Rihanna, Meagan Good, Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Alicia Keys,Tessa Thompson, Tika Sumpter, Jennifer Hudson, Read more ...

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Restaurant / Biruk Alemayehu : Alemayehu left her native Ethiopia as a teenager and moved to Louisiana years later to study at Southern University in Baton Rouge. Today, she's a professor at Southern University at New Orleans. Read more ...

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A polymath – she is a beautiful dancer and has directed pop videos and immersive theatre – she works in experimental hinterlands, creating atmospheres rather than singalong stories. For example: the sparse and sad track Cellophane, released in April as the opening single for her new album, was accompanied by a video that featured twigs athletically pole-dancing in a sparkly bikini before being eaten by a lookalike insect, falling into watery depths and being covered in orange mud by caring tortoise creatures. Twigs is about intensity, beauty, sexuality and freakiness.

Because of this, I’ve geared myself up for her to be a tricky interviewee. Distant. Abstract. Maybe a bit defiant. But twigs is not like this. She is friendly and quite serious. She has a light, RP voice with a slight lisp and a young face; though she is now 31, she can seem 10 years younger, especially when she laughs.

At Glastonbury in 2015. Photograph: WireImage

We meet in her lovely home in east London. Her sitting room is olive green, with plants and a piano, fossils and tapestries and books about jazz. Preserved snakes twist under glass domes. There is a Diptyque Feu du Bois candle burning. The vibe is part museum of curiosities, part comfy boutique hotel. Her small dog, Solo, is lounging on the rug. “I found her in LA four years ago, behind a nail salon,” twigs says. “She was tiny, about six months old, and all alone.” (For the dog spotters: Solo enjoys chasing a ball and can do sit, paw and lie down. And, yes, she sleeps on twigs’ bed.)

Twigs thinks about how she presents herself. For this interview, she has dressed in an embroidered white shirt, Burberry shorts and white socks, with velvet ribbons at her throat. Her hair is partly dyed a wild red. Like the dancer she is, she’s poised but casual, plonking herself on the floor (all dancers sit on the floor). Sweetly, she has three types of posh juice for me to choose from, though she herself drinks herbal tea.