#appropriation

Instagram/BlackHair Magazine “I hold up my hands. I’m so so so sorry and I’m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman.” — Emily Bador BlackHair magazine made a huge mistake when it used a model on its cover, and assumed she...  

We’ve seen it time and time again. Between cornrows being renamed “boxer braids,” or big butts and plump lips becoming all the rage because of a Kardashian, Black women’s features and styles are in demand….as long as they’re found on other people. While we’ve certainly written... The post New

Instagram In yet another instance of an out of touch media outlet praising a white celebrity for sporting an inherently black hairstyle, MTV UK posted an image of Kim sporting cornrows with a tweet that said “The A List are loving boxer braids right now... The post Kim Kardashian’s Boxer Braids

Credit: Medium/Omar Victor Diop It´s been no big secret that there have long been underlying tensions within the African-American and African immigrant community, even these labels can be a topic of dispute as to which is appropriate for whom. Yet whether we had been blind... The post What’s Been

Being influenced by soul and appropriating a black soul singer are not one in the same. The post Why Are We Giving Adele the Iggy Azealea Treatment Like We’ve Never Heard a White Person Sing with Emotion Before? appeared first on Clutch Magazine.