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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 ...

Life Style / Dr. Cynthia Allen: I was sincerely and deeply honored to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humanity, a Presidential Lifetime Achievement,Read more

Travel: Learn about travel protocols local and internationally. Read more ...

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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When he gave lifts to her friends, she was embarrassed by the music he played in the car: acid jazz, real jazz, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone. She would ask him to play the radio instead, though he never did.

My mother would pump me up and I’d be like,
'Yes, I am pretty', then go to the school
disco and want the floor to eat me

Her mother took pains to make her feel beautiful, telling her her hair was lovely and her skin colour was gorgeous, but she didn’t feel it. “She’d pump me up at home and I’d be like, ‘Yes, I am pretty’ and I’d get dressed up and think, ‘Yes, I feel good.’ And then I’d go to the school disco and as soon as I got there I’d want the floor to eat me, because all my friends had this perfectly straight blond highlighted hair.” When, aged 15, she asked her friend to come with her to a bashment party called Jamaican Club in Gloucester, her friend only came once, because, she told twigs, she didn’t feel comfortable as the only white person there.

“And I was like, ‘That’s how I feel every day at school!’” Twigs says, almost laughing with outrage. “I got angry. ‘That’s how I feel when I go to your brother’s house party and it’s all Cheltenham Ladies’ College girls. When I go round people’s houses and they’ve got swimming pools and ponies in the back yard!’”

On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2016. Photograph: Getty Images