Black Pride

Janell Ross

Natural or Relaxed, For Black Women, Hair is Not A Settled Matter

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 10.04.2011

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ATLANTA -- All month, Sharee Bryant had been hearing women talk about hair. She'd overheard two women in a grocery store checkout line talking abo...

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Little Indignities

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellen Snortland

I was recently taken aback during a business meeting when a woman in her 20s (I'll call her Heather) referred to me and my two older sisters as "girls."

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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Obama Not Marching With Black Pride

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irene Monroe

For many of us LGBTQ African American religious activists across the country we feel that Obama is not serious in making a dent in combating black homophobia or reaching out to the black LGBTQ community.

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