- 1. TikTokker Faces Backlash After Using Black Hair Care Products
- (Style)
- ... has been a female-black-owned business since 2014, selling hundreds of products catering to people with different textures of hair based on African American hair types, with type 3-4 hair (hair patterns ...
- Created on 17 January 2023
- 2. Lizzo’s “SNL” Performance Brilliantly Recreates Painting By Artist Annie Lee
- (TV)
- ... in her work to illustrate everyday moments in African-American life. Blue Monday is Lee’s most famous painting and only self-portrait. A deliberate stylistic choice present in Blue Monday along with the ...
- Created on 19 December 2022
- 3. Nikyatu Jusu's Sundance Prize-Winning "Nanny" Shows the Real Horrors of the American Dream: BUST Revi
- (Movies)
- ... with cryptic visions of Mami Wata, an African water spirit who personifies polar opposites, such as beauty and danger. African folklore used in horror is nothing new, but in the hands of a Black woman ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 4. 7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
- (Movies)
- ... African-American women whose mathematic work at NASA put the U.S. ahead of Russia in what was referred to as the Space Race with the goal of putting a man in space. Starring Octavia Spencer as Dorothy ...
- Created on 30 November 2022
- 5. 14 Inspiring Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life, On Their Own Terms
- (Sex)
- ... interview with Vanity Fair in 2018 when she told the magazine that she “kind of goes both ways.” She is now engaged to South African actress Jodi Balfour. 5. Maybelle Blair Maybelle Blair, one of the ...
- Created on 14 September 2022
- 6. Scared With Her, Not for Her: Keke Palmer Shines in "Nope
- (Movies)
- Director Jordan Peele’s new science fiction thriller, Nope, tells the story of two siblings, Emerald (Keke Palmer) and Otis “OJ” Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya), continuing their father’s legacy of handling ...
- Created on 04 August 2022
- 7. These 9 Women of Color Are Passionate About Teaching Women How To Level Up Financially
- (Feminism)
- ... Activist (@thebrokeblackgirl) Having amassed nearly 200k followers on Instagram, financial activist Dasha Kennedy uses her space to document her financial journey as an African-American woman ...
- Created on 05 July 2022
- 8. Mental Health Awareness Month: 14 Celebrities That Are Vocal About Their Mental Health Struggles
- (Living)
- ... As a woman of color who promotes therapy, the actress started a project that pushed for free “virtual therapy” for African-Americans affected by the pandemic. She spoke to BUST about the Boris Lawrence ...
- Created on 24 May 2022
- 9. Taraji P. Henson Was Just Appointed To The White House's HBCU Board Of Advisors – But What Does That Even Mean
- (Feminism)
- ... mental health advocate, founding the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation in 2018 to help end the mental health stigma in the African-American community, named after her father who suffered with mental health ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 10. Madison Butler Disrupts Gender Pay Inequity For Black Women, With Her Black Speaker Collection, a Database Full of Voices That Need To Be Heard
- (Feminism)
- ... Black Speakers Collection database is replete with over 2000+ highly qualified Black speakers that are experts in a variety of fields and specialize in a multitude of topics outside of African American ...
- Created on 25 March 2022
- 11. HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
- (Feminism)
- ... and was created to give African Americans citizenship, civil rights, and legal rights) in 1868, but that was not recognized as valid, and obviously, the 14th Amendment still stands. However, as of the ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
- 12. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
- (TV)
- ... Baartman). Baartman, an African woman from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, possessed a sizable derriere that garnered alot of attention and not positively. Her steatopygic aesthetic became the fascination ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 13. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... Lit: Bar Bronx, NY The Lit Bar opened its doors in 2019. It is the only brick and mortar bookstore serving the 1.5 million people located in the Bronx, NY. Noelle Santos, who is of African American and ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 14. "Harlem," The New Sitcom by "Girls Trip" Writer Tracy Oliver, Just Might Be the Fluffy-Lighthearted TV Fare Black Women Need in these “Post-Pandemic” Tim
- (TV)
- ... the world something else as well: another viewpoint of modern African American women told through the Black-American woman’s eyes. Header: screenshot from youtube Middle and bottom photos: Prime ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
- 15. Celebrated Author and Intersectional Feminist bell hooks Has Died
- (Feminism)
- ... which explored her transition to the role. In 2010 the college opened the bell hooks Institute in her honor, which currently holds her personal collections of artifacts, African-American art, and copies ...
- Created on 15 December 2021
- 16. You’re Invited: Celebrate "Project Runway's" Nina Garcia & Help Women Rise Against Violence at Womankind’s Virtual Gal
- (Sponsored)
- ... health. In 1994, the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice created the term "Reproductive Justice", because the movement at the time did not include an intersectional analysis that considered ...
- Created on 14 October 2021
- 17. Say Their Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on ...
- (Feminism)
- ... of African-American writer and civil-rights activist Pauli Murray. Born in 1910, the Baltimore Maryland native struggled with her sexuality and gender identity their whole life. A graduate of Howard University ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 18. How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
- (Feminism)
- ... hips Gotta hop into my jeans like I hop into my whip, yeah The celebration of Sarah Baartman’s features marks a departure from her historical image. Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman ...
- Created on 20 August 2021
- 19. Monique DeBose Celebrates "Brown Beauty" In Her Newest Music Video: BUST Intervie
- (Music)
- ... of musical about my experiences growing up as a mixed-race woman; my mom is Irish-American and my dad is African-American. I wrote a body of work and then decided I didn’t want to do that. I then wrote ...
- Created on 25 June 2021
- 20. Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
- (Living)
- ... as an African-American woman marked by a particular history"—which she later termed as "writing myself in,” according to The New York Times. Butler’s stories, therefore, were typically written from the ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
