January 19, 2010
Tweet From a documentary on colorism at a university in California, these black women share their experiences behind the phenomenom known as “colorism”. Another flick, called Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm, is interesting as well, as it dwells on common perceptions on race. Why is this still an issue today?
July 16, 2009
Tweet Spurred on by nothing more than the slow wheels of progress, there has been a paradigm shift in the thinking of racial archtypes (note I didn’t say stereo) in recent years. While as little as 10 years ago, many African-American women who looked a certain way, wore their hair a particular way were fashioned ...
February 19, 2009
Tweet Wikipedia says “Freckles are clusters of concentrated melanin which are most often visible on people with a fair complexion. A freckle is also called an “ephelis.” The freckle phenomenon spans races and complexions though. Despite it’s rareness in the African race, freckles are indeed genetic and are passed down and are triggered by exposure ...
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January 7, 2009
Tweet The tat. Nothing (not hair, not clothes) in the past 15 years has been more an expression of individuality than the tattoo. If you look in old school yearbooks in the 1970s and 1980s you’d be hardpressed to find an expressive tattoo outside the small ink spot or initials. But about the early 1990s, ...