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6-calendar year-old dynamo Mya Williamson, her phenomenal mother, Brianna Williamson, and her happy grandmother, Nichelle Shannon, embrace the mantra, “We have to be the head and not the tail.” They joined fellow entrepreneurs for the Wednesday edition of Conversations with Al McFarlane, the day-to-day social media webcast about McFarlane Media […]
Cicely Tyson: The Actor Who Redefined Black Characters and Black Beauty
It was an significant realization. My early ambition was to be an actor, and the handful of Black females I observed on Television and in films — Diahann Carroll, Nichelle Nichols — ended up glamorous, but emotionally inaccessible, as “done” as their impeccable hair and makeup. Ditto the street superheroines […]
Why seeing Black girl joy in ‘King Richard’ hits home for Black women
Have pleasurable. That information sums up a essential concept in “King Richard,” the biopic of how tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams broke into the recreation with the enable of their persistent father, Richard, played by Will Smith. Saniyya Sidney, who performs Venus, instructed Refinery 29 in a joint interview […]
U.K. Salon Industry Long Underserved Black Clients. It’s Vowing to Change That.
LEEDS, England — The purr of the gold clippers breaks the silence inside the Piranha Hair Studio as Qasim Sajjad teaches a lesson on how to cut Black hair. Brian Swarry, the studio’s owner, offers extra instruction via Facetime while a junior hairdresser watches and listens. It is an unremarkable […]
My Beautiful Black Hair: Celebrating Our Crowns Through 101 Empowering Stories
These days, it’s not uncommon to see Black women wearing their natural hair. Something unheard over twenty years ago. Back then, sporting one’s kinks, coils, and curls was not socially acceptable. Forcing women to chemically alter their hair texture. Giving them that desired bone, straight, European look, that attracted the […]
