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Black Woman Owned Fashion Line, Jolie Noire, Lands at Target
Kim and Keyondra Lockett’s fashion line along with several other Black designers are part of Target’s Black History Month campaign, “Black Beyond Measure.”
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28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 25: Sonny Sharrock's Black Woman (1969)
The cover for jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock’s debut album, 1969’s Black Woman, could have easily doubled as a movie poster for the 1970s version of Queen & Slim. The photo taken by Ray Gibson (with design by Haig Adishian) features Sonny and his wife and frequent collaborator—until their divorce—Linda Sharrock lookin’ like Black love goals.…
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Trump Interrupted a Black Woman While She Spoke During a Town Hall. It Didn’t Go Well
Rumor has it that it was a Black woman who walked into then-President George Washington’s dressing chamber and looked at him disapprovingly in his knickers. The Black woman then asked, “You going to wear that?” And just like that, America was saved from wearing little-ass pants. It was a Black woman who walked into Popeyes…
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100 Black Entertainers and Celebrities Send Letter to Biden Urging Him to Pick Black Woman as VP. Biden Is Going to Mess This Up
This wasn’t supposed to be remotely hard; in fact, the groundwork had already been laid down. It works like this: Black women are the backbone of the Democratic party and they needed to be rewarded with a vice-presidential pick in this upcoming election. And the presumptive Democratic nominee for president still hasn’t made his pick,…
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We Need to Talk About Joe Biden’s The Breakfast Club Interview
This year’s election is going to be tough and it shouldn’t be, but now I’m fully accepting that America is either voting for a Russian-loving, sun-beaten orange Skittle or a soggy white sock with a black stripe and a Southern old white man blaccent. Let me start this by saying I’m voting for Joe Biden.…
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'What Black Girl Magic Looks Like': Detroit Cop Seizes Woman's Car, Mocks Her on Snapchat as She Walks Home in Below-Freezing Weather
A Detroit police officer thought it would be funny to post a video of a black woman walking in below-freezing temperatures after he seized her car. In the Snapchat video, the “good cop” filmed the woman, claiming that she was doing the “walk of shame” and posted stickers over the images “What black girl magic…
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Video Shows Black Woman Chasing Confederate-Flag-Wearing Teen Who Called Her the N-Word
Proving that black women do not possess the genetic predisposition enjoyed by people who forget about past events like slavery, Jim Crow or that one time their boyfriend came home with stripper glitter on his jeans, a woman went full T.J. Hooker and chased down a white teenager decked in the Confederate flag just to…
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Video Emerges of Manager of Pittsburgh Pizza Chain Brutally Beating Black Woman in Store
Video footage surfaced Friday evening of a black woman inside Pizza Milano—a popular Pittsburgh-area pizza chain— being pushed, restrained, head-butted and tackled by a manager of the store, who then, while on top of her, slammed her head repeatedly into the floor. (Warning: The video is very graphic and disturbing.) Equally disturbing is that Pizza…
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My Ancestry Results Revealed a Difficult Truth Behind 'Good Hair' in My Family
In the bathroom of a Brooklyn, N.Y., bar over the weekend, a black woman stopped me and said, “Oh my, I love your hair! What are you mixed with?” It’s not the first time I’ve been asked that, but I took a pause before answering and eventually said to her, “Not mixed, just black.” Growing…