Tag Archives: black beauty
Stunningly Beautiful Blackness

The morning after Muhammad Ali died, I couldn’t stop thinking about all the times he called himself “pretty.” A corner…

Public ‘Freedom’ and Private Consciousness

Do public celebrations commemorating emancipation, heritage and history help to instill a private consciousness in the people of the communities…

From ‘The American Negro’ to #FeministSelfie and #DangerousBlackKids: Posing African American Humanity Through the Centuries

On Friday my mom and I drove up to the Evansville Museum to see the exhibit, “Posing Beauty in African…

Smiling to False Standards

I recently came across a post on a Facebook page asking women what they didn’t like about themselves when they…

Sexy, Feminine, Sensual, Tough: Beyonce’s Perfect Blend

  When I saw the tweets below last night from Dr. Kaila Story, an assistant professor at the University of…

9 of the Most Memorable Moments for Black Women in 2012

On this last day of 2012, I’m sharing the moments from throughout the year that are most memorable to me…

Getting on My Nerves (or why I want to be a fitness inspiration)

I was practically born coordinated. According to my mom, I walked before I crawled, and I tied my shoes at…

Pretty Biblical

Sometimes I read posts written as responses to something unusual and esoteric written online and wonder how the respondent found…

First Lady Love

I love my First Lady. I was so pumped after watching her speech last night, it took me an extra…

I’ve been corrupted

I have rated myself against women I’ve never seen in person, who I see in the context of magazines and television shows, media whose true purpose is to reimburse their beauty product advertisers with my dollars.

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