CARRY ME HOME: Karla FC Holloway says her new book about African-American funeral practices must have been in her blood. But she never thought it would become a piece of her broken heart. She has ...
Media Matters recently documented how Laura Loomer has made a career in MAGA politics through attention-grabbing political stunts and extreme bigotry. Popular Information has also documented the close ...
Iconoclastic Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy once posited that Black intellectual history is best understood as a tug-of-war between optimists and pessimists: those like Dr. Martin Luther King ...
BRATTLEBORO — Castle of our Skins — a Black arts institution that centers Black music, culture and history through people, programming and partnerships — continues its ninth season theme of stitching ...
The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...
*(Via BlackBusiness.org) – Wade Menendez, also known as “Wade the Barber,” has been credited for transforming the hair game as a pioneer of creating “man weaves.” Those who have a balding scalp run to ...
Roger Gore -- hair products manufacturer, impresario, master of promotional gimmickry -- has a new campaign. A crusade, really. Clad in shorts, having just cut the grass, he leads me to his warehouse ...
Two years ago, after reading the script for her next movie project set in 1989 Los Angeles, Nikki Wright began combing through old Black fashion magazines, looked at cosmetics ads and watched music ...
Looking for long hair in a minute? Toni Love’s 2001 book, The World of Wigs, Weaves & Extensions is getting a re-release. While the book originally addressed African-American women seeking Lady Godiva ...