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Hair: Black Feminine Haircare Division
by Ciara Miller Both Gwendolyn Brooks and Carolyn Rodgers address the impact of Black beauty culture on Black women’s perception of self within their poems. According to Robert L. Boyd’s article “the Great Migration to the North and the Rise of Ethnic Niches for African American Women in Beauty Culture and Hairdressing, 1910-1920”, few studies…
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Sam Greenlee Dies at 83 | NYTimes.com
Sam Greenlee, a novelist and poet best known for a low-budget 1973 movie made from his novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which envisioned a black power revolution led by a militant black ex-C.I.A. agent
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Natasha Tarpley: Interview
September 2019, One Book One Bronx will discuss the modern classic Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion by Natasha Tarpley. Click here for details. Natasha Tarpley by Bridgette Gayle Natasha Tarpley’s memoir, Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion, takes an intimate journey through her maternal…
