Wear It, Buy It & KEEP It Black: Overcoming The Beauty Supply Bogart

Brothers and Sisters, I’m going to need you to break it down for me: why, why, WHY are we STILL endorsing and subsidizing the mega-monopoly that Koreans have on the Black Hair industry? If you saw the 2009 film Black Hair, then you understand the total domination and blanket nepotism at work in keeping the… Continue reading Wear It, Buy It & KEEP It Black: Overcoming The Beauty Supply Bogart

Eurocentric Ownership Slowly Chipped Away Our “Essence”

  This prior essay crystalizes the exact moment I realized that I could no longer subscribe to Essence magazine, one of their most tone-deaf cover choices and business moves ever.   “Irritated……Infuriated…….Outraged…..Undone…..” That just begins to describe the outrage that many loyal readers are feeling as they find this month’s Essence magazine in their mailbox on… Continue reading Eurocentric Ownership Slowly Chipped Away Our “Essence”