Ballerina Misty Copeland spoke up regarding the practice of blackface/brownface in her profession. Please read her powerful thoughts, as well as a first person testimony from dancer Dana Nichols, who tells a compelling real life experience of being dressed in …

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  “I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair is never considered to be beautiful and I think that it is time that stops today. …

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They’re called “bigs” on a basketball team, and my upcoming ebook features college sweethearts who play NCAA ball. Yul Sukari (I decided to change his first name from Yohan) and Rhea Chappelle are the bigs on their respective male and …

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