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To New Orleans with Love: Professional Black Girl Launches Season 2!
Who dat? Oh, she’s just a Professional Black Girl, back home in New Orleans for Season 2! Following a successful 2018 crowdfunding campaign that surpassed its $25,000 goal in two days, educator, activist, creator and curator of Professional Black Girl, Dr. Yaba Blay, returned to her hometown with her groundbreaking video series “created to celebrate…
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Calling Professional Black Girls Everywhere! Ready for a Road Trip?
“Professional Black Girl is, like, my favorite thing that I didn’t plan to do.” Dr. Yaba Blay is talking about her self-produced sleeper-hit video series, Professional Black Girl, which quietly rocked our worlds when it debuted in fall 2016. The 14-episode first season was an exploration of what Blay calls “black-girl culture”—in all its regular,…
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Professional Black Girl: Video Series Celebrates ‘Everyday Excellence’ of Black Women and Girls
Dr. Yaba Blay, a leading voice on beauty politics and the creator of Professional Black Girl, has been in the game for a minute, loving on black women and girls from the top of their heads to the bottom of their feet. A sister’s sister, Blay has tackled everything from colorism—with her (1)ne Drop project—to affirming melanin as black and…