black women
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ColorComm’s Young, Fabulous and Fly Creator Lauren Wesley Wilson Shares Her Goals for Black Women in Business
Black women have always made a way, no matter what. There’s not a lane for us? We create it. There’s not a seat at the table of us? We build the seat and the table. That’s exactly what Lauren Wesley Wilson has done with ColorComm. Wilson once worked at a PR agency and noticed there…
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Glamour Magazine Shines the Spotlight on the Historic Number of Black Women Who Are Candidates in Alabama
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves, y’all. To date, approximately 603 black women are currently running for political office in the United States; in Alabama, a record 70 of the state’s 2018 candidates are black women (only two of which are Republican). Glamour magazine is featuring 18 of these hopefuls in its June/July issue, due…
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I’m Tired of Enduring the Abuse and Pain That Makes Me a ‘Strong Black Woman’
A month ago at work, a white man physically threatened me. He wanted to know my name so he could report me, so he came close to me and followed me into my work building and repeated his request. His goal was to intimidate, because maybe I intimidated him. It started because I couldn’t hear…
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The Shrunken Place: Why I Can’t Laugh at This Viral Video
I had been sent the link by multiple friends, who just knew it would be right up my “awww” alley. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a little girl telling her daddy, in the politest way possible, that he did not do her hair right. The clip has since gone full-on viral, as this mini…
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My Mother’s Daughter, a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 1: Zaiane
Editor’s note: This year, to celebrate Mother’s Day, The Glow Up interviewed four generations of mothers within a single Harlem family that recently welcomed its fifth generation. We’ve asked these mothers, ages 19 to 83, the same 12 questions about motherhood, daughterhood and matriarchy. These are their stories. A few weeks ago, I found myself…
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Red Table Talk: Jada Pinkett Smith Starts a Multigenerational Dialogue
Just in time for Mother’s Day, one of Hollywood’s most famous moms is inviting us to her table—the red table, that is—for Red Table Talk, a new Facebook series created and hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, featuring her 17-year-old daughter, Willow, and mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris. “Motherhood and everything that comes with it is our red-hot…
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Comic Relief: Wash Day Captures the Radical Self-Love in a Hair-Care Ritual
When is your “wash day”? Saturday mornings? Sunday afternoons after church? However a black woman wears her hair, the wash-day ritual is one she undoubtedly knows well, with techniques sometimes preserved since childhood, or honed to perfection after starting her natural-hair journey. A group of young female creatives are paying “tribute to the beauty and…
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Bill Cosby’s Legacy Is Now Shit. Throw That Baby Out With the Bathwater
You know what conversation is confusing? This one: Bill Cosby has now been convicted of doing exactly what he said he did—please go read the deposition again—and there is a legion of people who want to make sure that we still acknowledge that Cosby has done a lot for the black community. I don’t know…
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Judge of Characters: The Hatred of Black Women
The death of Stephon Clark does what many black men’s deaths at the hands of police do: rally the troops to protest why, for some strange reason, black lives seemingly don’t matter. There’s no way for us to think otherwise when Clark was shot down in less than seven seconds in his grandmother’s backyard. But…