african pride
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Talks With Mama Tina: Tina Knowles Lawson Wants Us All to Take Pride in Voting
She may have come into our consciousness as the costume and fashion-designing, hairstyling matriarch of the star-laden Knowles clan—now expanded to include the Carter and Lawson surnames—but Tina Knowles Lawson, better known as ”Ms. Tina” to followers, is indisputably a star in her own right. Whether telling “mom jokes” on social media or running mentorship…
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Make Wakanda Real by Embracing Your African Roots
Growing up as a Ghanaian American in Central Massachusetts during the 1980s was a constant series of “firsts.” I checked boxes identifying myself as a “first-generation” American. I was the first child of my African immigrant parents to take ballet and gymnastic classes. I was their first Girl Scout, first overpriced prom experience and first…