Gorgessity Headpieces, Feathers, and Drama at the Wearable Art Gala Beyoncé was at the WACO Theatre Wearable Art Gala on Saturday and she was the main event, as she always is. She is selective about her appearances, as we know. And her connection to this party, of course, is her mother, Miss Tina. And together they have made the Wearable By Lainey • Oct 24, 2022 12:18 pm
Emmy Awards 2022 Issa and Robin: What the Emmys don’t appreciate It was five years ago at the Emmys that Issa Rae went viral for saying that she was rooting for “everybody Black”. Five years later and… https://twitter.com/mekishana/status/1569477106987577344 Issa hasn’t changed. But the Emmys haven’t changed either where Insecure is concerned because after a By Lainey • Sep 13, 2022 05:41 am
TV Updates Issa’s on some new “Sh!t” Rap Sh!t, the new series created by Issa Rae, premieres tomorrow on HBO Max and Crave in Canada, and Issa was in New York yesterday to promote it. This just a week after her Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Lead Actress for the final season of Insecure – but no By Lainey • Jul 20, 2022 01:52 pm
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
SAG Awards 2022 Intro for February 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, Jennifer Hudson wore a custom pink Vera Wang dress to the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night where she was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as Aretha Franklin in Respect. The night before, at the NAACP Image Awards, it was custom Christian Siriano: RESPECT the winner By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 07:43 am
TV Updates Insecure: Preparing for Goodbye What a time. It still seems unreal, but HBO’s Insecure is actually coming to an end with the series finale airing December 26. No one's prayer worked. The more the show winds down (or Wine’s down 😉), I’m realizing exactly why it’s my favourite show. By Melayna • Dec 21, 2021 10:37 am
TV Updates Saying Goodbye to Insecure The current fifth season of Insecure is also the final season, and everyone has been in their feelings about it. Our emotional responses (and tweets) about the characters and their stories have kept Insecure as a fav show and topic of conversation (and arguments) since the show premiered back in By Melayna • Oct 27, 2021 01:41 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Jay Ellis in Black and White The Insecure season five premiere was last night in Hollywood and Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji brought it in tan and pink and underboob and corset and matching feathers… …and ordinarily that would be enough for the Outfits of the Week. But one of their co-stars decided he wanted to By Lainey • Oct 22, 2021 03:30 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Three more sleeps…and then it’s Sunday night – and the beginning of the end, the fifth and final season of Insecure. Ahead of the premiere, Yvonne Orji was at the ELLE Women in Hollywood event on Tuesday night and profiled in The New York Times Style Magazine. By Lainey • Oct 21, 2021 09:25 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Taraji and Issa: Closet-Floor Cool Lainey and Sarah and I write all our pieces separately, after a semi-haphazard rock-paper-scissors meeting to see who’s going to write what. So I don’t know what words they, or anyone else, is using to describe the looks last night at the Emmys – but I know the one By Duana • Sep 20, 2021 12:44 pm
Top Reads Issa Rae Gets Married! Issa Rae and her now-husband, Louis Diame, have been together for years, since at least 2012. Unlike Bennifer, LOL, Issa does not put her love life on blast. So even though they’ve attended a few Hollywood events together, like here at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood event in By Lainey • Jul 26, 2021 12:50 pm
Issa Rae Issa, Insecure, and Impatience Though it hasn’t been nearly as long, I know, I feel like the wait for the fifth and final season of Insecure, to me, feels like the wait for Rihanna’s new album. Rihanna’s fans, aka Navy, are always on her about when new music is about to By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 01:56 pm
TV Updates There will be more of A Black Lady Sketch Show This past Friday, Robin Thede’s A Black Lady Sketch Show concluded its second season on HBO. Experiencing the show during this horrendous time for humanity has definitely been a relief. The cast stuck with what made us fall in love with the series and turned up what really worked By Melayna • May 31, 2021 11:42 am
Style Issa Rae: How to Dress While Building an Empire Issa Rae rarely turns a bad look. She’s styled for the June issue of Vanity Fair by Shiona Turini, the costume designer on Insecure, Issa’s HBO show in which she appears equality well dressed — all the time. I’m not crazy about the belt she’s wearing on By Cody • May 19, 2021 03:09 pm
Equality Issues Issa Rae’s Awards Perspective The NAACP Image Awards took place this weekend, hosted by Anthony Anderson. Issa Rae won her first NAACP Image Award for lead actress in a comedy. She was nominated alongside Regina Hall, Folake Olowofoyeku, Yara Shahidi, and Tracee Ellis Ross. And she hilariously shouted out Tracee in her acceptance speech. By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 10:38 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae: Media Mogul Insecure season four, which premiered on April 12 last year, was one of the few highlights in the spring of 2020, during the early part of the pandemic in the west. It was also, for the Black community, a source of comfort midway through the season after the murder of By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 12:14 pm
