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  • This Model’s Beautiful Skin Will Give You Melanin Goals

    This Model’s Beautiful Skin Will Give You Melanin Goals
    Senegalese model, Khoudia Diop, is popular on social media not only because of her stunningly dark skin, but her fiercely unapologetic attitude towards it.

    Khoudia Diop is one breathtaking charcoal beauty. Just look at this.

    She was featured in the newly launched ‘The Coloured Girls’ Campaign (TCG), a project that aims to be a voice for girls of color.

    In a world where body and skin tone shaming are everyday realities, this model’s pride for her skin and heritage is everything.

    If you know you body shame people, you can now rest.

    Join us in appreciating this black queen please.

    Shola

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  • Is This Picture Racist?

    Is This Picture Racist?
    Racism is very much alive especially in the movie and fashion industries (word to the Oscars).

    Although American clothing brand, Gap tried to address diversity with this ad in 2014.

    And also preach girl power in this campaign that features the only all-children humanitarian circus troup in the world, Le Petit Cirque.

    People on Twitter still think this particular picture is racist.

    https://twitter.com/soulzilla/status/716374318658285577

    And called Gap out for using the little black girl as an armrest.

    https://twitter.com/ASHA7777/status/716370762349682688

    They think the brand is being passively racist.

    They wanted to know why the ad featured only one black girl.

    https://twitter.com/KALIUCHIS/status/716664010263769090

    Is the “arm rest” pose really sending any message in particular to anybody?

    How come this picture from Gap kids didn’t spark any outrage?

    https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/716753585552302080

    If the black girl was portrayed as the ballerina, people may even say they made her twerk.

    Can’t a child rest on another’s head in a playful capmpaign for children?

    Must there be a racial tag to everything these days?

    Na wa oh! Somebody cannot play with you people again.

    However necessary and highly important the fight against racism is, misdirected outrage and anger will not assist in achieving equality.

    [zkk_poll post=26837 poll=content_block_standard_format_13]

    Maryam

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  • “What is Pretty?” This Web Series Asks Black Girls All Over The World To Answer

    “What is Pretty?” This Web Series Asks Black Girls All Over The World To Answer


    Nigerian-American filmmaker and blogger, Antonia Opiah, launched Pretty in January this year, to explore black women’s perception of self-image, across the globe, in spaces that tend to favor Euro-centric beauty archetypes – you know, blonde hair, blue eyes.

    Pretty travels round the globe asking black women: “What is pretty?” So far, Pretty has touched down in Paris, Milan and London, and after Europe the series is coming to Africa and then North America and South America.

    The series also records every woman’s message about beauty in their “traveling notebook.” See some messages:

    Sarah, Paris

    Sonia, Paris

    Frederique, London

    Adora, London

    Fredamily, Milan

    Fatima, London

    Watch:

    View the rest of the videos on Pretty‘s YouTube channel here.
    “What is Pretty” to you?

     

    Odunayo

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