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Artist Shani Crowe Is Transforming Braids Into Even Finer Art
Fingerwaves Saint, Shani Crowe Chicago-based Artist Shani Crowe is taking cornrows to new heights in her new exhibit titled “Braids”, currently on display at MoCADA (the Museum of Contemporary African...
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I look like an egg A photo posted by @cliffannie on Jun 16, 2016 at 3:09pm PDT “Who just completed their life goal at age 18?” Cliffanie Forrester tweeted. “Me. As of 6/14/16, my piece is in the...
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#YesSheCan: 7-Year-Old Writes A Book Reminding Little Brown Girls That They...
Morgan Taylor/Taylor Made Publishing Daddy’s Little Princess, authored by then 6-year-old Morgan Taylor and her dad Charles, is an elementary school level book about real life princesses in every shade...
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Black Girls Rock! Founder Beverly Bond To Publish Book Celebrating Black Women
Twitter Beverly Bond‘s new book, “Black Girls Rock! Celebrating The Power, Beauty and Brilliance of Black Women” is set for a Fall 2017 release. According to a statement released by Bond, the book will...
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Marvel’s New Iron Man Is A Black Woman: Meet Riri Williams
Cover of Invincible Iron Man / Marvel Marvel just announced its new Iron Man and she’s a Black woman! The events at the end of the comic book series Civil War II will result in Tony Stark stepping out...
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Lil Wayne Reveals He Officiated a Gay Marriage & Drake Slept With His...
Lil Wayne’s upcoming memoir, Gone ‘Til November, is set to be released next month. Based on an excerpt from the book inspired by a series of diary entries Wayne wrote while locked up in prison, it...
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11-Year-Old #1000BlackGirlBooks Creator Becomes Editor-in-Residence for Elle...
Marley Dias, 11-year-old founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, is now the editor-in-residence at ELLE.com. Last year, Dias’s campaign to collect books for that shared stories of women and girls of color and...
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Author Gloria Naylor Passes Away at 66
She was the woman whose words wove a fabric of sisterhood in The Women of Brewster Place, and now Gloria Naylor’s words will live on forever, although she’s no longer with us. Naylor, at the age of...
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Here’s a Look at Rachel Dolezal’s New Book
And she’s back. Rachel Dolezal has a new book coming out and in it, she’s discussing her “trans-racial” abilities. In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World will be released on March...
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Solange Gives Away 250 Books To Howard Students At A Black Owned DC Bookstore
The day after her performance at the Peace Ball on Thursday, Solange Knowles stopped by Sankofa Video Books & Cafe, a bookstore on Georgia Avenue to meet with some local fans and purchase 250...
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Just In Time For Valentine’s Day, Jill Scott And Hallmark Mahogany Launch New...
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jill Scott and Hallmark’s Mahogany brand today announced the launch of The Jill Scott Collection, collaboratively created line...
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#BlackGirlMagic: This Woman Is Raising Money to Open the Bronx’s Only Book Store
Noëlle Santos is putting in hard work to open up the Bronx’s only book store. And has launched a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo to open the The Lit. Bar. How did the Bronx end up without a...
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Gabourey Sidibe Opens Up About Weight-Loss Surgery
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Gabourey Sidibe is finally opening up about her weight loss journey, that includes having weight loss surgery last year. “My surgeon said they’d cut my stomach in half. This...
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New Children’s Book Teaches Black Boys To Respect Black Girls
Lawrence Lindell Artist Lawrence Lindell created “From Black Boy With Love,” a children’s book released this past March, to teach black boys to treat black girls with respect. The book contains 24...
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A Chicago Muralist Under Fire For Plagiarizing a Black Woman’s Artwork
Instagram/Twitter A Chicago artist is under fire over a recently unveiled mural of Michelle Obama, which shows the former First Lady in the style of an Egyptian queen, in South Shore. The mural is...
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The ‘Colored Girls Museum’ Celebrates the Experience and Herstory of Colored...
Credit: Colored Girls Museum Vashti Dubois is making #herstory with her Colored Girls Museum — located in her home in Germantown, Philadelphia. Curated by activist, artists, neighbors, thought leaders,...
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