celebrating today’s natural hair pioneers
The natural hair movement has come a long way from the Black is Beautiful days. To bring a close to black history month we're looking at the new guard that has ...
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skin bleaching: who’s the fairest of them all?
Is skin bleaching simply a form of self-fashioning and constructing one's own physical identity or are there really deeper motives at play?
what the baoulé taught me about beauty
We're told to look inside a person to find their appeal. But what does that really mean? My trip to the Branly Museum gave me an alternative way of interpreting...
black history: black images in european art
The classical paintings in the Louvre show us that Blacks indeed had a history of servitude in Europe, but we were also depicted as players in Greek myths, trad...
discuss: when did you first feel your race?
I first felt the color of my skin on a playground in London when I was about six years old...
Do I Hate My Hair? Understanding its History
In America black hair is not just hair. There's a larger historical weight that comes with the way we style our hair.
from the editor: the past in the present
This month we'll be taking a look at the history of black hair, how it's evolved and the women, like Miss Diana Ross, that have influenced it's evolution.