Queens Of Africa a Nigeria-based company has released the latest line of pretty Black Barbies and they’re hugely popular and have impressively surpassed the sales of iconic Barbie. We all know that as a little girl, a Black Barbie was probably best thing we could’ve ever clutched out of our toy box. Since those days, other brands […]
The conversation about colorism in the Black community is far from over. Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls” is a documentary that addressed colorism–a topic that needed to be addressed in the Black community, and now we’ve got an antithesis to the very popular “Dark Girls” documentary. There’s an upcoming documentary called “Light Girls,” but there are […]
With the rising of Lupita Nyong’o’s star, several op-eds about colorism have popped up on the Internet and once again the discussion has turned back to what it means to be Black. To place the focus back on loving ourselves no matter what our shade, “My Black is Beautiful” teamed up with transformational life coach, Lisa Nichols […]
This is three-year-old Kylie. Adorable, right? Her parents submitted this beautiful photo of her to a popular natural hair site with the hopes of broadcasting their daughter’s beauty, in turn, lifting her self-esteem in a world where Black girls are being called “nappy-headed hoes,” and impressive Black girls like Gabby Douglas set golden records by […]
The “Dark Girls” documentary that premiered on OWN over the weekend was quite the loaded conversation. The film looked to explore the biases and attitudes towards darker skinned women, asking people within the Black community and out of it, their feelings on women with a darker skin tone. Must Read: Light Skin Vs. Dark Skin… […]
Colorism is a huge deal, both in the United States and across the world. In a colorist society, skin color, unfortunately, has the potential to not only destroy self-esteem, but often leads to discrimination and intraracial conflict. By 2018, it is estimated that the skin-lightening industry will be worth 19.8 billion dollars. All because unhealthy […]
