Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t need care. The secret to a great beard is a solid foundation. Your facial hair steals moisture from your skin which sometimes leaves your skin dry causing dandruff in your beard (not cool bro). It’s important that you implement a daily skin care regime when you’re rocking a beard, so even if you decide to shave your beard one day, your skin will be smooth and healthy. To keep your skin healthy
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Jarena Lee, first female AME Church preacher, born - February 11, 1783
An 1849 picture of Jarena Lee (1783-circa 1855), the first official female preacher for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. | Wikimedia Commons
This week marks the anniversary of when Jarena Lee, the first African-American woman ordained to ministry in
Parents of students at a Long Island, N.Y., middle school are outraged after teachers allegedly displayed an “offensive” noose photo in a classroom last week, so much so that the school district is now investigating.
The photo, embedded as part of a collage inside a Roosevelt Middle School classroom, reportedly featured two nooses labeled “back to school necklaces,” according to the New York Daily News. Citing a statement from the Hempstead town supervisor, the newspaper reported that nearly ha
Almost a century before Barack Obama made history as the first African American to become president of the United States in 2008, a black man by the name of George Edwin Taylor set his eyes on the White House in 1904.
Born in 1857 as the son of a free woman and an African American slave, Taylor worked as a professional journalist before getting involved in politics. However, he discovered that neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party represented th
Black history month has been celebrated in the United States each February since 1926 and each year new influential leaders in the community are born. Even last year alone was filled with endless melanin magic to rejoice over. In sports, Simone Biles became the most decorated gymnast in the world and Naomi Osaka became the first Jap
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1906—Poet and novelist Paul Lawrence Dunbardies. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Dunbar rapidly gained national recognition as a poet. Although he only lived to be 33, he was prolific—writing short stories, novels, plays and songs. In Dayton, he was a classmate of the Wright brothers of aviation fame. In fact, the Wright brothers helped Dunbar finance his newspaper—the Dayton Tattler.
1935—Black Enterprise magazine founder and publisher Ea
In a recent episode of ABC’s dating show, The Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay, the first black female to participate, broke down in tears. “The pressures that I feel about being a black woman and what that is... I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. The show exposes the fraught dynamics of race, dating, and marriage for black women in America. “Even before the female-led spinoff of The Bachelor ... in my mind ‘bachelorettes’ were white women who were brides-to-
A black mother in Springfield, Missouri is crying foul after a local school allegedly doled out a weak punishment to a bully who edited a photograph to depict her son as a slave.
Local news station KY3 reports that mother Kierra Nabors is slamming officials at the Cherokee Middle School for inaction after one student photoshopped her son’s face onto a cartoon depicting slaves.
Chief (Mrs) Oyenike Davies-Okundaye was born in 1951 in Ogidi-Ijumu, Kogi State, Nigeria. She grew up learning the common craft — traditional weaving and dying practice — from her parents and great grandmother who were mus
A nine-year-old black girl killed herself after prolonged racist bullying by her classmates.
McKenzie Adams took her own life after being mocked and taunted because she had a white friend.
Family members say McKenzie had transferred to U.S. Jones Elementary School in Demopolis, Alabama, because she had been bullied at her school in Linden, Alabama, reports the Tuscaloosa News.
Eddwina Harris, McKenzie’s aunt, said: “She was being b
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – AUGUST 22: Stan Lee attends Extraordinary: Stan Lee at Saban Theatre on August 22, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
In 1968, Lee used Stan’s Soapbox, a monthly column which ran from 1965-2001 to publicly condemn racism.
“Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today,” Lee wrote. “But, unlike a team of costumed super villains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot or a zap from a ray gun. T
Oprah Winfrey on Monday responded to a white supremacist group targeting her and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in a robocall to voters.
“Jesus don’t like ugly,” she said of the robocall in an Instagram video.
“I heard people were making racist robocalls in my name against Stacey Abrams, who I am one hundred percent for, in Georgia,” Winfrey says. “I just want to say: Jesus don’t like ugly … And we know what to do about that: vote. Tomorrow show up and show out, and vote.”
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Since this country began more than 240 years ago, people of color have had to fight for justice and equal rights. Although the struggle isn’t over, we can all be inspired by the men and women whose courage and sacrifice have made this country a better place. From former slaves Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington, to civil rights activists Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., to those who were pioneers in their fields, such as Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel in space, and
This fact may be oblivious to many Africans, but Africa is indeed the father of civilization. In fact, without the ancient Kemet, there would be no Greek philosophy; and if the Persians had not invaded Egypt or if the Greek had failed to access the ancient Egyptians’ Education, there would be nothing like Alexandria research center and Aristotle could not have written any book. But these are just but a few of African unknown facts that may form a topic of discussion on another day, but toda
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Many a fashion statement was made on tonight’s Emmys red carpet but none was quite as impact as Jenifer Lewis’. The self proclaimed “Mother of Black Hollywood” decided to skip the designer gowns and couture creations and instead hit the red carpet in head to toe Nike. She walked the carpet with a glitter check on her chest and her natural hair on her head, proud to be representing her blackness and the company that stood by Colin Kaepernick in his
Outspoken ESPN personality Jemele Hill has announced she is leaving the company. Hill attracted attention last year and was briefly suspended for posting opinionated messages on social media, including a reference to President Donald Trump as a “white supremacist.”
Hill took to Twitter Friday to say it was her last day, saying in part: “When I started at ESPN in 2006, I had no idea that such a wonderful journey would take place over the next 12 years. This was the place where I became the
The family of Botham Jean, the man killed by an off-duty Dallas police officer, is calling for the termination of the officer involved and is speaking out about what they call the “distasteful attempt to assassinate the character” of the 26-year-old.
During an afternoon news conference, the family’s attorney Lee Merritt spoke specifically about the Dallas police search warrant obtained after Jean’s murder.
“The warrant that was issued on the night that Botham Jean was killed… the warrant had
