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nbcnews.com | Curtis Bunn |Angela Yang |Saba Hamedy |Michelle Garcia |Michelle García
Updated The 2025 Met Gala’s theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Black dandyism, which reaches at least as far back as the Harlem Renaissance from 1918 to the mid-1930s style, will be on full display on fashion’s big night. Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour has chaired the gala since the 1990s. This year's co-chairs include: actor Colman Domingo, musicians Pharrell Williams and A$AP Rocky, and Formula One competitor Lewis Hamilton. NBA star LeBron James serves as an honorary co-chair.
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nbcnews.com | Curtis Bunn |Justine Goode
Since the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century, dandyism has been integral to the fabric of Black life. And as styles have evolved over the decades, so too has the culture, setting fashion trends that span the world. At the Met Gala on Monday, the styles that have influenced culture at large, and Black culture specifically, will be celebrated on fashion’s biggest night.
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nbcnews.com | Curtis Bunn
For the first time at the glamorous Met Gala in New York, Black men — their style, expression, elegance, creativity and versatility — will be on full display. Using as inspiration the 2009 bestselling book, “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Disasporic Identity” by Monica L.
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yahoo.com | Curtis Bunn
Since the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century, dandyism has been integral to the fabric of Black life. And as styles have evolved over the decades, so too has the culture, setting fashion trends that span the world. At the Met Gala on Monday, the styles that have influenced culture at large, and Black culture specifically, will be celebrated on fashion’s biggest night.
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nbcnews.com | Curtis Bunn
As lawmakers take aim at hard-to-recycle plastic and foam, a California packaging company is introducing a new shipping cooler made of woven paper fibers that could transform how temperature-sensitive products like pharmaceuticals and laboratory reagents are moved across the world.
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nbcconnecticut.com | Curtis Bunn
For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke's home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, she said. Although "frustrated" by the unhealthy and inconvenient conditions, Burke said she doesn't let it get her down. Human wastewater contaminating homes and yards in these rural parts of central Alabama "has become a way of life," she said.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Curtis Bunn
For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, she said. Although “frustrated” by the unhealthy and inconvenient conditions, Burke said she doesn’t let it get her down. Human wastewater contaminating homes and yards in these rural parts of central Alabama “has become a way of life,” she said.
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flipboard.com | Curtis Bunn
1 hour ago Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz The decision came after Waltz placed a reporter on a sensitive Signal chat about bombing the Houthis in Yemen WASHINGTON—President Trump is replacing national security adviser Mike Waltz roughly a month after he put a journalist on a group text chat in which advisers discussed a sensitive military … 5 hours ago To understand Trump’s presidency, just follow the money Donald Trump doesn’t care about how unpopular he is—or how...
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4 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Curtis Bunn
Canada’s break from American-made wine and the Trump administration’s global tariffs have compounded the struggles of the United States’ already-stressed wine industry to the point that it may be difficult for much of it “to come back from,” an American wine organization leader told NBC News. “Canada is the single most important export market for U.S. wines with retail sales in excess of $1.1 billion annually,” Robert Koch, the California Wine Institute’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Curtis Bunn
3 hours agoWineInk: Denver’s newest wine bar“I’ve been staying here for 25 years,” said a longtime Aspen architect who we serendipitously bumped into in the lobby of Denver’s Hotel Teatro on a …16 hours agoTariffs make sour grapes for American winemakersYou might expect American winemakers to be popping bottles of California sparkling wine these days. With President Trump's tariffs on the European Union, U.S.-made wine now has a greater price advantage over Italian Prosecco and French Champagne.
