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What do Pretty Brown Girls, For Brown Girls and #SmartBrownGirl all have in common? They are all organizations started by black women aimed to uplift

It seems absurd, but it’s still a reality that there are serious consequences for some women who choose to wear their hair naturally coily or

It all started when Teen Vogue beauty director, Elaine Welteroth (pictured above) documented her trip to Kigali, Rwanda in an online editorial. Welteroth highlighted her

By Lisa Bensley for XOVain.com I am biracial. Yes, the very white-looking person you see in the picture above has a black mother and a

After the Rachel Dolezal controversy broke out, there was much talk from within and outside of the black community of how she should be thanked

A new line of underwear called THINX has come out, and it isn’t just any old panty line. The underwear is designed to be worn

Right about now, there’s a petition going around to stop this wannabe Stillwater-looking band (tired, Almost Famous reference, but whatever) that decided it would be real

A new trend among young women is growing right underneath their shoulders: armpit hair. What was traditionally seen as unclean, unkempt or unladylike by the

Rachel Dolezal, president of the Spokane Washington chapter of the NAACP and Africana Studies professor at Eastern Washington University, has been passing herself off as

June is an exciting time for fans of the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, and with excitement building for the show’s June 12 premiere,