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Girls United: For the International Day of the Girl, Essence's Mentoring Initiative Grows Up
It’s the International Day of the Girl, where we focus (as we should every day) on supporting the growth of girls around the world—through advocacy, mentorship and empowerment. And the black girl magic media juggernaut known as Essence has been doing just that, last fall launching Girls United, a mentoring initiative meant to empower the…
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Girl Boss: On the International Day of the Girl, Meet the Incredible Girls on Kidbox's Kids Board of Directors
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, my biggest initiatives were keeping my room clean and babysitting my younger siblings. But for the eight remarkable girls above, their mission is to make the world a better place—from advocating for clean water, to literacy, to gun control. For Kidbox’s Kids board of…
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Black Man With (Possible? Probable?) Hair Plugs Complains That Black People Care Too Much About Our Hair
Perhaps the most telling aspect of thrift shop fedora repurposed as a strip club daytime shift buffet tray with sentience Jason Whitlock’s continued descent into Take Perdition is that there’s no variance with him. For someone who frequently decries SJW groupthink, he’s as predictable as a burp after a sip of soda. If a black…
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Vogue's 'Forces of Fashion' Gives Cardi B a Grammy-Worthy Birthday Cake—and Reveals the Black History Behind Beyoncé's History-Making Cover
When Cardi B showed up at the 2019 Grammys wearing a vintage Thierry Mugler gown inspired by Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” (colloquially known as “Venus on the Half Shell”), she knew she’d make headlines. But what the rapper, reality star and newly minted film actress didn’t know was that she’d be made into a cake.…
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Help Black Girls Make Magic: 7 Organizations You Can $upport on International Day of the Girl
For black girls and young women of color, it can seem like the deck is perennially stacked against them. A recent study by Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality quantified what many of us have intimately experienced: that adults view black girls under 14 as less innocent and more adult than white children of…
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On World Mental Health Day, Designer Kenneth Cole Offers Hope With the Launch of the Mental Health Coalition
October is a month of commemorations; it marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, includes the last two weeks of Hispanic Heritage Month, and tomorrow is International Day of the Girl. But mental health is an issue that affects every demographic—in fact, the World Health Organization estimates 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health condition…
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Can Kids Be Kids? 8-Year-Old Michigan Girl Banned From Picture Day for Her Colorful Braided Bun
The last time we checked, people all over the world wear their hair in myriad styles—straight, curly, short, long, colored, braided, dreadlocked, etc.—and yet, children are inexplicably shielded from this in many schools, which continue to mandate their hairstyles. Arguably, these rules—which have, in some cases, prohibited children from attending classes or participating in extracurricular…
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She Did It! Jessica Nabongo Is the 1st Black Woman to Visit Every Country in the World
The last time we saw world traveler—no, adventurer—Jessica Nabongo, it was this past July in New Orleans at the 2019 Essence Festival. But while NOLA is an undeniably exciting city (and Essence Fest the annual convention of #BlackGirlMagic), it’s likely not the most exotic location Nabongo has visited as of Sunday, Oct. 6, when she…
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Saving Black Mothers: New California Law Requires Bias Training for Doctors, Medical Providers
Bringing new life into the world can be a perilous journey for any woman, but especially for black women, who, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are at least 3 times more likely to die of a pregnancy-related death than white women. In a bid to tackle the crisis of pregnancy-related deaths…
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Tina Tchen Takes Charge: Michelle Obama’s Former Chief of Staff Is the New President and CEO of Time’s Up
Eight months after the untimely departure of former Time’s Up President Lisa Borders, the women’s advocacy organization has a new head—with a familiar face. Tina Tchen, co-founder of the organization’s Legal Defense Fund, is perhaps best known as Chief of Staff to forever first lady Michelle Obama, who tweeted about her former staff member’s newest…