GapKids Girl Empowerment Ad Portrays Black Girl as a Silent Armrest
Gap recently launched their GapKids x ED campaign, a collaboration with Ellen Degeneres that features young girls doing incredible things. There is 8-year-old Livia, one
Gap recently launched their GapKids x ED campaign, a collaboration with Ellen Degeneres that features young girls doing incredible things. There is 8-year-old Livia, one
Beauty bloggers and makeup aficionados alike have taken up a new trend, adding faux freckles to their faces. Although people tend to associate freckles with
Michelle Obama’s legacy as a trailblazer will have an indelible impact on American culture. As the country’s first African American First Lady, Obama has been
Many black women suffer with postpartum shedding silently, but natural hair blogger Michelle Thames of Happily Ever Natural went public with her experience in a
Beyonce released promotional images and video for her new athleisure line, Ivy Park, today and it wasn’t long before the stunning images papered the Internet.
Melanin has been historically associated with poverty, slavery and a lack of beauty, wealth and class. It’s a mentality that resounds both within and outside
When Cizinho Afreeka and Jéssica Juliana found out they were expecting a baby girl, they wanted to give her an African name. The couple settled
20-year-old Russell Schiller (IG) is a white sophomore advertising major at Howard University. According to a profile on BeyondBlackWhite.com Schiller is “a Wisconsin native who
Plus-sized black women deal with things that others might not consider — and being shamed for eating publicly is one of them. Self-described ‘hood feminist’
Meet Kezia Williams, founder of The Black Startup, a company dedicated to training young black entrepreneurs. In early March, Williams attended a Confederate flag rally
When Beyonce wrote the hit Bootylicious, she might have been thinking of her own family for inspiration, because the curves are in the gene pool!
Meet Gigi Rodgers, known online as Puck’n’Chaos, a body painter and self-described “comic book style MUA”. A few years ago, inspired by artist Alexa Meade
Last year Tumblr user FullTen, the child of an interracial couple, shared honest thoughts about how her lightness and her mother’s whiteness have been objectified
It all started when an Internet “philosopher” named Yada declared that menstrual cycles are European, and not African, in origin; “Your ancestors was not running,