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New algorithms allow for more realistic coily hair animation, enhancing the representation of Black characters in film.

Intended to regulate Black women and reinforce the racial hierarchy, these tignon laws had the opposite effect: Creole women ...

Writer Akaylah Ellison pens a personal essay on why the term Afro-Latina doesn't represent her as a half-Black and ...

A report commissioned by the city of Santa Barbara, California, highlights the decline of the Black population and the impact of gentrification and anti-Black racism on the community.

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Discover the inspiring stories of four Black women making a difference in Sacramento. Empowering the future with resilience ...

Former President Clinton said he was flattered when acclaimed author Toni Morrison called him America’s “first Black ...

They are integral to black culture's past, present ... Chunky braids are fashionable for African-American hair due to their ...

Laughter and tears, insult and injury; motherhood, sisterhood and the lifeblood of a neighborhood is all in a day’s work at ...

Nemy and other enslaved women helped braid patterns and messages into hair to communicate in secret ... to 12 highlights the ...