Scholastic Children's Book Portrays Enslaved Black Girl as Happy and Joyful
New York Times food writer Ramin Ganeshram is under fire for penning a horrifically offensive children’s book that portrays an enslaved family as happy and
New York Times food writer Ramin Ganeshram is under fire for penning a horrifically offensive children’s book that portrays an enslaved family as happy and
Yesterday, President Barack Obama delivered an exceptional final State of the Union address, but it was his wife who stole the show in a stunning
Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same. Few know the story
Television has a long way to go towards representing the diversity of black women’s experiences, so many turn to YouTube to find black women they
17-year-old starlet Amandla Stenberg has been making waves for carefree black girls everywhere from her profound and poignant video on cultural appropriation last year to
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Kerry Washington is starring in an upcoming HBO biopic of Anita Hill, the Yale-educated lawyer who testified in 1991 that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
27-year-old Amber Amour is a New York activist whose work centers on creating a culture of sexual consent and empowering sexual assault victims to report
By Zeba Blay for The Huffington Post I only wore my hair natural maybe a handful of times last year. If my hair wasn’t wrapped
https://youtu.be/jYLTcgfqA54 This past November, activist groups took to Korean-owned beauty supply stores in Lancaster, TX to divert black customers from spending their dollars in non-black-owned
Early on New Year’s Day, Twitter was going AWF with the #BonnetBoyz hashtag. Twitter users @Gladvillain and @YouUglyOnSkype set everything in motion with just a couple of
Even though there are a growing number of children’s books and stories that celebrate little black girls, Disney princesses are still so ubiquitous that young
When it comes to natural beauty, Kerry Washington has it in spades; gorgeous full lips, high cheekbones and luminous brown skin. So it’s puzzling that
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