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Simone Oliver Named New Editor-in-Chief of Refinery29
It’s no secret that amid the racial uprisings that began in earnest this spring were parallel reckonings happening across industries, including entertainment, retail, tech and media. In fact, in June, we reported on the complaints raised against several well-known media imprints as current and former employees bravely called out incidences of discrimination, sidelining, pay inequity,…
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Birchbox Gets Unbothered: A Popular Subscription Box Gets a ‘For Us, By Us’ Curation
It’s not news that black women are the beauty and hair care market’s biggest spenders; as Nielsen research famously revealed in 2017, black women spend approximately nine times more on beauty and hair care than our white counterparts. And yet, until recently, we have been persistently ignored and marginalized by the same market we help…
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With a New Memoir, Elaine Welteroth Reminds Us That We’re More Than Enough
She’s known as an arbiter of millennial cool-girl style, but as Elaine Welteroth told Refinery29, she started out just like the rest of us: “a hot mess.” Specifically, she was speaking about the video application she prepared in a long-ago attempt to score an internship at Essence magazine. Notably, it featured “India.Arie replaying in the…
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Refinery29 Short Cuts Gets Dragged for Its 4C Hair Tutorial Video
If you were ever to ask black women with natural hair what’s the most underrepresented texture when it comes to hair tutorials and available styling products, many would probably say 4c hair. For those unfamiliar with the 4c category of hair, it’s typically described as tightly coiled hair. If you happen to wander down the…