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Ravyn Lenae has been gracious enough to invite us all to her home on numerous occasions. In her music, the 26-year-old sonic disruptor has welcomed us on the steadying journey to the physical and emotional dwellings where memory and introspection greet us at the door. Sartorially, she stitches this throughline into her wardrobe in playful, whimsical silhouettes, as well as the sentiment and experimentalism she’s learned from her hometown of Chicago.

This holiday season, in collaboration with Coach, we’ve landed yet another invite to her homecoming. “The Gift for New Adventures” follows Lenae, SOYEON, Elle Fanning and other Coach ambassadors as they usher in the spirit of rekindling old passions, exploring new adventures, and solitary reflection.

Many mothers, like Sheryl Lee Ralph, at some point in time discover the tangible fashion capital that doesn’t lie in the insularity of luxury fashion houses but instead down the hallways of their homes in the budding minds of their young daughters. In the hurried bustle of press runs, Ralph’s occasional request for fashion counsel from her daughter, Ivy Coco Maurice, soon transformed into a full-throttle wardrobe restructuring. “Early on, I started to get so much more engagement around what I was wearing and who I was wearing. Everything just seemed to fall into place,” Ralph tells Teen Vogue.

In late January, Andrea Phillips and her educator colleagues in Duval County, Fla., huddled in the media center to watch a district-mandated video. On screen, Supt. Diana Green ordered the faculty to remove all books from school classrooms and libraries that were not part of the required curriculum.

The directive came down as part of the district’s effort to comply with HB 1467, the new Florida law requiring greater transparency, accountability and parent voice regarding which books are permitt

Editor’s note: The author of this piece is a student at FAMU.

Each spring, students, faculty, and alums from Florida A&M University (FAMU) swarm Florida’s Capitol in Tallahassee swathed in citrus orange and grass green. The annual fanfare, known as FAMU Day at the Capitol, is a rite of passage, when university stakeholders lobby with legislators, with the bellow of the school’s band serving as background music.

The university was founded in 1887 and had a meager start: It was home to just 15 s