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 and is shaping natural hair today.
black history
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 this tried and true saying.
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, traders, warriors and kings.
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.
