On Helping Black Women Care for Our Hair: An Interview With Ruth Brooks
Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Ruth Brooks, owner and operator of one of New York’s first natural hair salons, Organic Hair Salon. She’s also the founder of the city’s only hair school for natural hair, Natural Hair Course NYC. Ruth loves bringing her unique...
#BlackHer2020 – End Money Bail
Imagine driving across the country to begin your new job at a university when you are pulled over for the most minor infraction. The next thing you know, you’re forced out of your car, injured, arrested, and detained. This is what happened to Sandra Bland, a...
On Changing Things Through Steady, Loving Confrontation: An Interview With Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Photo credit: Robin Cooper/Penguin Random House Our BlackHer Shero of the Week is Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to participate in the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Because of activists like Lowery, the Voting Rights Act...
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