If Sophia Grace and Rosie were two little black girls named Tamika and Shante, would we consider them special?
These dolls give black children positive images.
For many mixed people there are significant incentives to downplay their white lineage.
Making the decision to lock my hair had been a fairly easy one. Unlike the men and women who agonize over the decision for months, if not years, I came to my hairstyle change rather easy. It was after a trip to Brazil, in which a curling iron and flat iron were unavailable to me […]
(Chicago Reader) — Have black folks left “blackness” behind? Local writer (and sometime Reader contributor) Ytasha L. Womack thinks so. In her new book, Post Black: How A New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity, she makes the case that the old ways of imagining African-Americans fail to encompass the dazzling diversity that now characterizes the community. “There […]