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Bill Duke Presents The Book Version of Dark Girls
By Bill Duke, Shelia P. Moses, $35 Bill Duke was so wowed by the success of his film Dark Girls that he decided to extend the festivities by producing the book version of his already successful...
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Black Ballerina Documentary in the Works
“I don’t want to see any more tokens,” says a voice-over in its trailer. “I want to see numbers now. Open the door, they’ll walk right in. And it will be rich and it will look like America.” — Black...
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We Love: Brown Girls Do Ballet, Celebrating and Increasing Diversity in Ballet
‘Every inquiry captured a shared passion beyond imagination and a greater purpose was unearthed’ – Brown Girls Do Ballet Brown Girls Do Ballet was started in 2013 as a personal project by photographer...
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Disney Princesses from Frozen, Tarzan and Brave Reimagined As Black And...
Julia, a 18-year-old artist from São Paulo, Brazil has created an amazing series of drawings of popular Disney princesses recreated as other ethnicities. In the Tumblr series, Elsa and Anna from...
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Nickelodeon Celebrates Black History Month With ‘Because of Them’ Photo Campaign
Kids Depicting Notable African Americans Featured in PSA Campaign Launching Today on Nickelodeon Nickelodeon has teamed up with activist and photographer Eunique Jones Gibson for The Because of Them,...
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Photographer Nakeya Brown Explores Complexities and Politics of Black Hair
My immediate reaction for seeing white women appropriating black hairstyles is that again, black women are the center of everything. — Photographer Nakeya Brown 27-year-old photographer Nakeya Brown...
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Shonda Rhimes and Dee Rees Tapped To Produce New Series Based on ‘The Warmth...
Shonda Rhimes is taking her talents to cable TV as she teams with Pariah‘s Dee Rees to produce “The Warmth of Other Suns”. The book chronicles the movement of some 6 million African-Americans from the...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Fear of Causing Offense Becomes a Fetish’
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke at the closing lecture at the PEN World Voices festival, and gave a riveting critique of ‘dangerous silencing’ in American conversation and Bring Back Our Girls...
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NY Times Couldn’t Find One Black Author For Its Summer Reading List
Apparently the person in charge of the New York Times’ summer reading list likes the reading list to be lily white. Janet Maslin recently released her summer reading list for the magazine and it’s...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Encourages Young Girls and Women To Stop Worrying...
Last week, Chimamanda Adichie was honored at the Girls Write Now Awards held at Tribeca 360 in New York City. The award was given to Adichie for paving the way for young girls through her...
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Rachel Dolezal Plagerized Her Artwork
Rachel Dolezal has been said to be many things. An educator, liar and she’s now a plagiarist. Through the power of social media and people with an astute eye for art, one user on Twitter uncovered an...
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Watch: To Be Black and Woman and Alive: ‘These Black Girls Need to Watch Out,...
“I grew up learning how to protect men who hate me.” “These black girls need to watch out, ’cause white girls is winning.” Two college students recently set a national spoken word event on fire with...
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A Coloring Book For Grownups Celebrating Hair? We Can’t Wait!
It’s no secret, we love Andrea Pippins. We’ve swooned over her colorful, affirming designs for years, and now we’re super excited she’s releasing a coloring book for grownups focusing on natural hair....
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Sisters, I See You Sparkling
I woke up this morning and needed to say this. Black women are amazing—not because of our race or gender, but because of our humanity. And it is our humanity that is routinely ignored. Society would...
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“I Love My Hair” Creator Andrea Pippins Has A Message For Black Women: “We...
By now you know we have a thing for Andrea Pippins. In 2009 we first introduced you to her whimsical design work affirming everything about Black women that makes us beautiful, and just last month our...
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Octavia Butler’s Sci-Fi Novel “Dawn” Being Turned Into TV Series
Fans of Octavia Butler have long desired to see the author’s written words come to life on the big or small screen and, finally, those prayers have been answered. This week Deadline announced Allen...
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Are You Offended By These Paintings?
Two of my allegedly “offensive ” paintings pic.twitter.com/bOJO5ZFgIo — MR SKETCH YOUR GIRL (@Duro_ARTS) September 18, 2015 Among the many things that caused an uproar this week, you might have missed...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates to Author ‘Black Panther’ Marvel Comic
Ta-Nehisi N. Coates has paved his way through the literary world and is taking his talents to Marvel. On Tuesday, it was announced that Coates would be the author of Marvel’s “Black Panther” comic...
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Artist Mixes Kente Cloth and Klan Symbolism to Discuss Racism
Paul Rucker’s newest art installation “Rewind” at the Baltimore Museum of Art isn’t just provocative, it provides commentary about today’s race relations. The installation includes media pieces that...
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Artist Paints Away Strong Black Woman Archetype with Watercolor
There are few expressions of art as soft and whimsical as watercoloring and it’s for that very reason that artist Debra Cartwright decided to use this tool to paint Black women in a new light,...
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