How black girls can embrace our beauty in an ever-racist society - Women's Media Center
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Young black children can perceive ourselves as unworthy, awful, and ugly. We see the racism in the world that sends these messages, and internalize it.
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When mixed-race couples talk about race — Harvard Gazette
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Fashion's Role in the Ongoing Black Civil Rights Movement
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Unbonding our Edges: The Pain of Black Beauty Standards - Atlantic Fellows
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For Black women journalists, wearing #NaturalHairOnAir is a point of pride and resistance - Poynter
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[Blackstock MD, Uché] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
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Blackness and Latinidad are not mutually exclusive. Here's what it means to be Afro-Latino in America
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How Girls Have Brought Political Change to America, At the Smithsonian
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How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights
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Rachel Dolezal, in Center of Storm, Is Defiant: 'I Identify as Black' - The New York Times
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Banning Hair Discrimination Emerges as Racial Justice Issue • Stateline