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16 Apr

Pacifica Beauty and Credo Weigh in on Secure Beauty

Pacifica Beauty and Credo Weigh in on Secure Beauty
For Brook Harvey-Taylor, prioritizing safer beauty isn’t a marketing line. Because the chief executive officer and founding father of Pacifica Beauty said, the sensibility runs deep, going all the best way back to her Montana upbringing. “I grew up on a cattle ranch, and I spent plenty of time in nature really understanding the connectivity between animals and the planet, and plants,” she said. “I like nature and the fragility of it, also, and as I used to be growing up, I at all times had this vision that I might do something with healing that needed to do with nature. In order that drove me to take into consideration making a product that was in service of healing.” In her mind’s...
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8 Oct

The Curious Case Of Nepotism In The Black Community—These

The Curious Case Of Nepotism In The Black Community—These
Considered one of my mom’s favorite shows was Living Single. She loved watching the then twenty-something solid navigate their love lives and careers while living in a 90s type of world. One standout episode for her depicted Khadijah James (played by Queen Latifah) working multiple side jobs along with running her own magazine. She refused any help from her roommates even after they noticed her nearing burnout. It wasn’t obvious to me back then, but as I got older I spotted my mom gravitated toward the hard-working character because she saw herself (and possibly every other Black woman she knew) in Khadijah. No handouts. No connections. Just grit. I assumed of that old episode after I watched Idris Elba’s recent...
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