While efforts to combat these prejudices are far and wide, natural hair discrimination is only legit illegal in 13 states, including Nevada, Virginia, and California.
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This 10-Year-Old Just Launched a T-Shirt Line to Combat Colorism
Kheris Rogers, a 10-year-old fifth grader from South L.A. has experienced her share of bullying for having dark skin — by both white and Black kids — throughout elementary school. She even remembers a time back in first grade when her teacher told all the students to draw themselves, handing her a black crayon instead […]
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It’s Here: #FENTYxPUMA Hits Stores Today!
Rihanna has been racking up the wins these past few days: She was this year’s MTV Video Vanguard, Drake professed his love for her at the same VMAs, and today (September 6), her debut FENTYxPUMA collection is officially in stores! We’re talking high-top sneakers, wedge boots, drawstring tees, tearaway track jackets, and more — all […]
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FLOTUS Flows Part II: Carpool Karaoke Edition
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Carpool Karaoke episode was just the carefree Black girl magic we all needed. We already knew she could flow, so when she told host James Corden to “crank it up” because she’d only been able to “rock out” in the front passenger’s seat of a car once in the almost eight […]
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‘Bout That Bank: Harriet Tubman to Give the $20 Bill a Dose of #BlackGirlMagic
IT. IS. HAPPENING. A Black woman is going to be the face on that new fetty! More specifically, the face is going to be of the baddest ride-or-die Black girl who rocks in history — Harriet Tubman. Instead of replacing the mug of Alexander Hamilton (he helped create the Treasury Department and is also the […]
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This Teen is #CollegeGoals
Brown. Columbia. Cornell. Dartmouth. Harvard. The University of Pennsylvania. Princeton. Yale. The Ivy Leagues. And 17-year-old Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna just got accepted to every last one of them! Current valedictorian of Long Island’s Elmont Memorial High School, Augusta applied to four other schools, as well, locking in acceptances to all of them, too. Now, all she […]
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Black Twitter Goes In on Nev Schulman for Black Girls Rock Joke
While we were jammin’ to bomb performances — that opening set, tho — and celebrating so many Black girls who rock last night, Nev Schulman was making jokes. And Black Twitter was not here for it, obviously. @_itsashleeee_ its obvious that he was trying to justify his statement by complementing black girls before […]
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“You Black Girl Magic. You Black Girl Fly. You Black Girl Brilliance.”
People have truly been out here doin’ the most trying to tell Black girls how to wear their hair, how their lips shouldn’t look, and how they’re magic isn’t so “magic,” after all. But, on the real, they can miss us with all that noise. In a recent video for PBS NewsHour, NYC-based poet, Mahogany […]
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Bey’s Surprise Video Drop was Just the Beginning
“Ok, ladies now let’s get in formation.” Beyoncé isn’t here for anybody’s mess and the rest of us shouldn’t be either. She straight up says she didn’t come to play, she came to slay. This is a call to action if we’ve ever seen one — and we are so here for all of it. […]
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Tinashe – “For some reason … there can’t be five Black girls winning. It’s weird.”
Back in the 90’s, our melanin was poppin’ severely on the charts. There was no shortage of Black girls of all hues killin’ it on the music scene. We had Brandy, Monica, SWV, Lauryn Hill, TLC, Aaliyah, Destiny’s Child, Mya, Changing Faces, 702, Toni Braxton, MoKenStef … we could do this all day. In the […]
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