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1 Oct

Meet The Mom That Wrote ‘Hello Hair’, A Children’s

by Beauty Tips
Nails, Featured
Meet The Mom That Wrote ‘Hello Hair’, A Children’s
It took 28-year-old Anita Grant greater than 20 years to let anyone outside of her close family see her natural hair. The Toronto, Canada native said it was because she’d seen mainstream media tout euro-centered beauty standards that made her feel like, as a black girl, she had to cover—a notion not unusual for her neighboring sisters within the US and beyond. Black women’s hair has been some extent of critique for hundreds of years. As TIME’s Areva Martin identified, the hate reached way back to when as when the US’s parent country, Britain determined that African hair was closer in texture to sheep’s wool than human. This wasn’t lost on Grant. Growing up, she found solace in reading popular 90s...
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13 Sep

Brews & Beats: This Music Lover Launched A Hip-Hop

by Beautifaire101
Makeup, Featured
Brews & Beats: This Music Lover Launched A Hip-Hop
Idiris Mohamed, Idreezus Studios You’d be hard-pressed to search out a link between tea drinking and hip-hop. But for Shanae Jones, the connection is obvious. It’s all about community. Because the first-born US American to British-Jamaican parents, tea was one other member of her family, Jones shared. “A few of our most significant moments happened over tea,” she said. “I didn’t even realize that individuals weren’t accustomed to waking up or going to bed with a cup of tea on this country until I used to be much older.” Although the drink was a staple in her household by the use of her parents’ British roots, Jones said she found her connection to American culture through music. “Hip hop taught...
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