Statement jewelry, vibrant colors, and braided hairstyles offered a striking contrast to the ornate 18th-century architecture — a vivid reflection of Black excellence redefining tradition.
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Essence,
Essence,
20 Oct. 2025
Nurses braided Katy’s hair every day, bathing and feeding her.
Bessent suggested Monday that the US may be in position to wind back its interventions.
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Daniel Flatley,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
Missourians love their Katy Trail State Park, the former railroad track turned pancake-flat trail stretches some 240 miles across the state, skirting the river, winding through farmlands, and passing through other small towns.
The struggle is not due to a lack of options, though: Boho braids wrapped into an elegant bun; cornrows neatly plaited into a bow; and small, knotless braids with wavy ends are just a few ways to wear braids down the aisle.
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Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
16 Oct. 2025
Princess Charlotte, also 10, is known to plait her hair back with a braid on each side of her head, with the braids then tied with a ribbon or woven into a longer braid, also tied with a bow.
In the vein of Jim Ford and Tony Joe White, East’s voice is fully formed here, twining country rootstock with soul and gospel so tightly that the traditions feel inseparable, and rightly so.
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Will Hermes,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2025
At his best, McCann does an assiduous, subtle job of twining his metaphors through everyday life.
Indeed, allowing men but not women to have multiple spouses is clearly unequal and entwined with patriarchal ideology that positions women as subordinate or inferior to men.
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David W. Lawson,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
Robinson and Quijada annotate Mexodus with lessons on the separate but entwined oppression of Black and Latino people in the United States as well as anecdotes from their own lives, emphasizing the importance of solidarity between the groups.
Lorde writhed and danced on the b-stage and then launched into her own verse, recorded for the song’s viral remix during the brat-green summer of 2024.
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Rachel Scharf,
Billboard,
19 Oct. 2025
The reigning Offensive Rookie of the Year was writhing in pain.
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