26 August 2009 ~ 26 Comments

acting natural: interview with actress adepero oduye

“At first I didn’t think there was a place for me in acting. Now I know there is, because I say so. I’ve marked my place. I know a lot of times people say, I don’t think they’re going to let me in. It’s not about waiting for someone to let you in. You just [...]

19 July 2009 ~ 14 Comments

Monday Style Icon: Claire of The Fashion Bomb

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I am very happy to feature Claire Sulmers from the Fashion Bomb as a Monday Style Icon on BGLH. The Fashion Bomb is an award-winning blog that shines a spotlight on urban fashion which is often overlooked in mainstream media. Since its inception in August 2006, The Fashion Bomb has been named Blog to Watch [...]

12 July 2009 ~ 94 Comments

sunday retrospective/natural girl’s reading list: natural hair gets no love in the dominican republic?

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***Update 7/13/2009… Two individuals quoted in this article have written letters of protest about the way their comments were construed. Instead of posting the letters here, I am going to provide a link. I read through the letters and did not feel that they took anything away from the main point of the article; that [...]

09 July 2009 ~ 17 Comments

climbing deeper into this natural ish: the end of blogger week & a new accessory

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So guest blogger week is over and we had some great entries! Thanks to all those who wrote guest posts! I used my blog-cation to relax and do some light behind the scenes BGLH work. I have a few exciting announcements about BGLH coming soon… so stay tuned! Also during my time off, I bought [...]

23 June 2009 ~ 12 Comments

Lagos natural hair gathering and Tyra Banks show clips

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I’ve been asked to announce an upcoming natural hair gathering in Lagos, Nigeria.Here are the details: Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pmLocation: 4 Adeyera Adeyemo Street. Ogudu G.R.AHost: Oghomwen Ehigie For more information, check out the event’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115109607626, or email oghomwen@gmail.com Also, as promised I found YouTube links to Tyra Banks’ [...]

21 June 2009 ~ 46 Comments

sunday retrospective: love, race and natural hair

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In last Sunday’s retrospective the topic of natural hair and relationships came up. Many women said that non-black men and non-black friends were more supportive of their natural hair than black men and black friends. One of the more interesting quotes was from reader Serenissima: “I was also on another forum that read that most [...]

14 June 2009 ~ 66 Comments

sunday retrospective… natural hair and racial environment

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BGLH reader Yuki left a comment on a recent post… Having frequented a number of natural hair sites and forums since I “big chopped” last September, I seem to be noticing that the black women who embrace their natural hair quite often live in racially diverse areas or predominantly white areas, while women who choose [...]

28 May 2009 ~ 36 Comments

workplace hair still an issue? (aka… should I have dedicated a giveaway to it?… woops…)

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So… um… the thing about natural hair, for me at least, is that I always want to know what’s REALLY going on with it.I’ve written before about how being a natural hair blogger can lend itself to alarmism (a fact Tyra Banks recently took advantage of) and false conclusions. And now I’m wondering if I’ve [...]

13 May 2009 ~ 21 Comments

Reactions to the Tyra Banks show on "good hair" — my take

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Okay, so it’s Tuesday night at 10:00 p.m… and I’ve scheduled this post to run tomorrow morning so this might not still be true in the morning — but according to our poll right now most people think a.) Tyra should stop interviewing crazy a$$ black women that make us all look bad or b.) [...]

12 May 2009 ~ 20 Comments

Reactions to the Tyra Banks show on "good hair"

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I haven’t seen the show yet (I don’t own a TV, so I’m going to have to catch it on the Internet tonight), but I wanted to start a discussion for people who have… I heard that Tyra mentions on the show that “Black women account for 80 percent of hair product sales in the [...]