hoodies
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White Women Wore Hoodies to a Tennessee Mall to Prove Its Hoodie Policy Only Targets Black Men
After footage of four black men being escorted out of a mall in Tennessee for wearing hoodies inside, four white women wore hoodies to the same mall to see if the policy was meant for everyone. And, yep, you guessed it, the women were able to walk freely around the mall with their hoodies—both up…
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Like Father, Like Daughter: 20 Years After His Death, Biggie’s Legacy Launches a Clothing Line
T’yanna Wallace was only 3 years old when her father, Christopher—the rapper the world recognized as the Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls—was brutally killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. I was 22 and a college senior, living across the street from his mother, Voletta Wallace, on St. James Place in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Clinton…
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Watch: Black Teen Myles Loftin Creates the Most Colorful and Refreshing Images of Black Men in Hoodies
Myles Loftin is a 19-year-old artist with heart and a yearning to see himself represented in media as a young black man who is not a thug, dangerous or gangster. He smiles. He makes jokes. He wears hoodies. So he created HOODED, a photo and video project that features young black men in colorful hoodies.…