Searching through Google Images, I was struck by how indicative what we as a people have been shaped to believe is the “right” image of love, romance, sex, and passion. Type in those words and despite the proliferation of hearts and lips and other generic images of “romance” and up pops photographs of white men [...]

Remember the now ex-staffer who said Afro’s were a don’t in the corporate world? Glamour has followed up with a feature article in their March 2008 issue. Not only do they profile black women, but white, Asian and Hispanic women, and their struggles with American concepts of beauty, particularly concerning their own race. It’s a [...]

Apparently, during a q&a session at a law firm about the do’s and don’ts of corporate fashion, a Glamour Magazine editor nixed such “political” hairstyles such as afros and dreadlocks. First slide up: an African American woman sporting an Afro. A real no-no, announced the