Being Black and maintaining professionalism in Western society has always been a sort of catch-22. It’s generally understood that as a Black person achieving a professional look is the equivalent adopting as many white looking characteristics as possible. For Black women this means sacrificing the unique beauty of our naturally kinky textured hair to straightening. […]
Marc Lamont Hill Book Response NOBODY Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond I read this book during my plane ride back to Seattle from Detroit. The experience of doing so almost felt surreal as I’d just left my hometown and witnessed the phenomena that I was reading […]