12 Search results for "beauty ideals"

By Catherine Imani By now, you’re probably aware of the fact that Jesse Williams and his wife Aryn Drake-Lee are divorcing after 5 years of marriage and 15 total together. This is not an article about their divorce, because no one knows what is going on inside of their home but them. This is about […]

Black queer and trans* folks are often excluded from mainstream ideals about love and romance. Their deviation from the White heteropatriarchal “norm” means that many folks in these communities rarely see images of themselves reflcted back on the silver screen, in TV series’, or in other media in popular culture. That’s why NBC’s new series “Living […]

Art and life reflect mutuality. Tracy Lynn Garner, a woman convicted of depraved heart murder for administering buttocks implants to a Georgia woman, has also died. Garner was 58 and had not yet served four years of her life sentence. This scenario parallels a story-line in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It reboot. There, a […]

Viola Davis made poignant points about black women and beauty ideals while accepting the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series award.  

by Avery Ware The sexual question comes after the question of color; it’s simply one more aspect of the danger in which all black people live. I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, into a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality […]

I hate the word privilege. Or maybe I just hate how it’s used. Niggas like to talk about privilege as if it gives a person the abilities of Domino from Deadpool 2. Y’all seen it? Zazie Beetz runs around kicking ass, and her power is that everything that can possibly turn out in her favor […]

by Arnetta Randall  Recently, I watched a live stream of a conversation between the Former First Lady, Michelle Obama and the First Lady of television, Shonda Rhimes. I found it simply amazing. One of the moments that resonated with me the most was when Michelle spoke about how her parents listened to her as a […]

Over the past couple of weeks, New Orleans has been at the heart of the debate of free expression vs. “erasing history.” For decades, the city has been home to multiple monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy. Eventually, city council voted to remove them. This decision came with plenty of controversy from Confederacy sympathizers and those […]

By Jasmine Banks “Taking the high road” is a myth and a distraction from revolution. It wasn’t even two days after the United States of America established Donald Trump as president that calls to “take the high road” started. The calls came from white folks who did and didn’t vote for Trump and Black folks […]

A couple weeks ago marked my fifth year with fully natural hair. Five years of split ends, single strand knots, tangles, detangling, home remedies, expensive conditioners, cheap conditioners, no-pooing, pre-pooing, more detangling, oil rinses, tea rinses, moisturizing, sealing, baggying and reading every blog, forum and article about natural hair I could find. And here I […]

The black hipster: a sneaker pimp wearing nothing other than Levi skinnies below the waist and a vintage Public Enemy snap back above the forehead, selects weapons of change from an arsenal of flannels and graphic tees. In the local boutique shelves, such as Leaders 1354 in Chicago, lie images of Huey P. Newton, Rosa […]

A couple weeks ago, i had a friend visit and on the way home from a club, the song “Five Star Chic” came on the radio. As soon as we heard the first verse, we looked at one another, simultaneously amused and disgusted. She commented that a woman like the type described in the song […]