The Beauty Standard

Keyaira Boone has spent more than a decade covering beauty and culture for Byrdie, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and more. She does not describe the job as covering beauty. She describes it as keeping the record. Journalists, she says, are historians. Inside her lens, her standard, the four-year pitch she refused to give up on, and exactly what she wishes founders understood before the email goes out. Plus what lives in her bag, and the legacy she is building on her own ter

Voices to Know profiles Larry Stansbury, the beauty and lifestyle writer turned content creator whose bylines run in Vogue, Elle and Essence. A Black Beauty Founders feature on his journey from a $500 move to New York to becoming one of the industry's most trusted voices, told through his own words.

AFROTECH journalist Samantha Dorisca on 3,000+ stories, purpose over validation, and why a single headline can change a founder's trajectory.