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by Erikka Yancy onApril 17, 2013
Filmmaker Erikka Yancy, in a piece at the Huffington Post, gets brutally honest about her history with racial identity and beauty.
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July 31, 2011
From Journal-isms: The company is supporting the Unity gathering instead. Plus: Writer knocks weaves.
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by Jacque Reid onDecember 8, 2010
When TV reporter Rochelle Ritchie went natural on television, she highlighted a serious problem among some black women who wear wigs, weaves and relax their hair: traction alopecia. Hair loss might be the ultimate motivation to go natural.
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July 15, 2010
When we heard about the skin-lightening app for the profile pictures of Indian Facebook users, it struck us as one of many examples of people adopting a look outside of their own ethnicity. Some feel pressure to conform to the dominant beauty standard; others just want to flout convention. Clearly, stars are prone to doing it.
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June 30, 2010
Tomorrow begins the federal tax on tanning, the 10-percent toll Obama’s health care bill thrust upon people who wanted to continue risking their health for perceived beauty. Is it time to similarly tax weaves?
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October 8, 2009
Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” is funny, very funny, but all the jokes come at the expense of black women.
