It’s tough for a young black girl to grow up around the beauty ideal of “beautiful” blond hair and fair skin. Knowing that they will never measure up to that. Filling them with a lack of self-appreciation and acceptance. Not just black girls but any race that doesn’t look like what they see idolized in...Continue Reading
I can’t use the word black without mentioning Marvel’s epic new film: Black Panther. Across the globe the movie has left people of different ages, races and nationalities saying #wakandaforever. This is a reflection of how ‘blackness’ is about believing more than it is about seeing. While ‘blackness’ was seen as a negative, we are...Continue Reading
South Africans are more and more adopting retail opportunities from other global markets and turning these opportunities to celebrate and shop unofficially. Popularity of retail opportunities such as “Black Friday” has seen more South Africans seek for retail sales, in a context that was not originally an official South African custom. South African consumers are no...Continue Reading
The ever constant shift in lifestyle creates new experiences. These new experiences in turn redefine and create a new perspective to what success currently is now, compared to what it was. Materials and showing off was the common belief of new success amongst the emerging black market. However that is not true anymore, black diamond...Continue Reading
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