Spring 2018 has been a doozy, but that hasn't stopped black excellence from taking over magazine covers. March and April have produced a bevy of beautiful brown faces on glossies. We can't do anything about your pollen allergy or the random blizzards, but these cover photos should snatch some edges and give a few lives. 

1. Violet: Tracee Ellis-Ross

2. Variety: Tarana Burke

3. Vanity Fair: Lena Waithe

4. Vogue Man Arabia: Samuel L. Jackson

5. Rolling Stone: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

5. Vogue UK: Gugu Mbatha-Raw

6. InStyle:  Zoe Kravitz

7. Stylist: Tessa Thompson

8. Glamour Mexico: Zoe Saldana

9. Sunday Times Style: John Legend

10. Porter Edit: Lisa Bonet

11. V Magazine: Mariah Carey

12. Billboard: Solange Knowles

13. Porter Edit: Viola Davis

14. GQ UK: Naomi Campbell and Skepta

15. Harpers Bazaar Arabia: Joan Smalls

16. Glamour Mexico: Kerry Washington 

17. Vogue Arabia: Imaan Hammam and Iman Abdulmajid

18. Cosmopolitan: Cardi B

19. Port: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

20. The Fader: SZA

21. W: Janelle Monae

22. Men's Health: Michael B. Jordan

23. Marie Claire: Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi

24. GQ: James Harden

25. V Magazine: SZA

25. Dazed: Solange