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For Better or Worse: After a Devastating Accident, the Family Behind BLK + GRN Talk Survival, Faith, and Love
In a month that celebrates both Black History and Valentine’s Day—that annual outpouring of love marked by excessive shows of romance—we often forget that black love is as intrinsic a part of our history in America as our legacy and accomplishments. But while the aforementioned celebrations only occur once a year, black love endures. In…
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Finding Friendship With My Boyfriend's Ex Freed Me From His Abuse
I gaze upon myself in the mirror and I am both enamored and inspired by what I see: The woman staring back in my reflection looks strong, confident and empowered. She has been through hell and back, but you can barely even tell because she looks so at peace and empowered. The gems on her…
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America's Top Business School Names First Black Woman as Dean
For the first time in its 139-year history, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, the top-ranked business school in the country, will have a black woman serve as its dean. Erika James, who has led Emory’s Goizueta School of Business since 2016, was named the school’s next dean, making her the first woman…
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There Were Red Flags Waving All Over Snoop Dogg’s Red Table Talk
I, along with a bulk of the industry, am noticing a trend. If you fuck up in the public relations realm, you better go to Red Table Talk to fix it. The most recent example was T.I., when he decided to take one giant misogynistic leap for mankind and claim ownership of his daughter’s hymen.…
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Who Is the Face of Italy? The Movement to Reform Italian Citizenship Law Makes a Fashion Statement
One day in July 2017, I was leading a media studies class I teach every summer in Rome on a field trip to the television studios of RAI, Italy’s national broadcasting company. The group was very international, comprised of local and study-abroad students representing six nationalities and a kaleidoscope of ethnic heritages. We were traveling…
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In 2020, Who Is Helping Black Women Start Their Own Businesses?
For more than a decade, black women have been starting businesses at a rate that eclipses many of their peers, even as entrepreneurship as a whole in the U.S. is in decline. But despite all the work they’re putting in, black women still face greater hurdles in accessing capital to fund their businesses than other…
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Dozens of South African Women With HIV Were Forcibly Sterilized, Report Finds
A new report published this week from South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equality found state hospitals forcefully sterilized dozens of HIV-positive South African women. In many instances, investigators found hospitals threatened not to assist the women in giving birth unless they signed the sterilization consent forms. According to ABC News, the commission’s 57-page report looked…
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Officials Responsible for Racist Fashion Show Put on Leave [Updated]
Is racism the newest high fashion fad? I’m sincerely asking folks. I feel like it’s been a prolonged cycle over the last couple years of a racist thing happening and then fashion-heads feigning shock that people were mad. This time the culprit is the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Over the weekend, The…
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Salt-N-Pepa's Here, and They're in Effect…With a Musically Inspired Makeup Collab With Milani
Ahhh…push it! Push some new eyeshadows and lip colors our way, that is. Pioneering female hip-hop duo Salt-N-Pepa (and yes, they are a duo, these days) have partnered with “mass-tige” beauty brand Milani on a ‘90s-inspired makeup collection, a new ode to the era that helped make them household names. “Throughout their career, Salt-N-Pepa have…
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Saudi Authorities Call for Arrest of Black Saudi Woman Over Her Music Video 'Girl From Mecca'
It was written to be an anthem of empowerment, expressing joy and affirmation in being a woman from Mecca: “A Mecca girl is all you need,” rapped Ayasel Slay in her recent music video, “Bint Mecca” (or “Mecca Girl”). “Don’t upset her, she will hurt you.” Slay, a black Saudi woman, features other black women…