“I've always been discouraged because of my dark skin, there are only a few dark skin people who think their have made it but I think they didn't. Just because a dark skin will always be a dark skin. May 2015 be a little different. No one will ever give me the same credit as they give to the light skin or a white woman and for that I am very grateful no matter what they say or do toward me. One...
“Classically not beautiful is a fancy term of saying ugly, and denouncing you, erasing you. Now it worked when I was younger; it no longer works for me now.” – Viola Davis
I think that beauty is subjective. I’ve heard that statement my entire life being a dark skinned Black woman. You hear it from the time you come out of the womb. And classically not beautiful is a fancy term of saying ugly and...
Beautie Brownie Spotlight
Ingrid Silva
As little girls some of us may have dreamed of being a ballerina, but we didn't have any examples that we could look at and aspire to be. Seeing a black ballerina is rare, and for those that have made it they are few and far between. But there are those few who have made their dream a reality. We had the privilege of interviewing Ingrid Silva, a Ballerina...
Beautie Brownie KeKe Palmer will make history next month when she joins the Rogers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella family on Broadway as the first Black Cinderella. She'll step into the title role starting Sept. 9 at the Broadway Theatre. "UNDERSTAND ME WHEN I SAY THIS: You can do anything you want to do! Your life is your life & your belief in YOU will make it all it can be! Don't stop at...
