Black Lives Matter Archives

11Aug

By The Bougie Aunt362 Comments

Media/Culture

Fenty Skin! Is It Worth The Hype?

The Bougie Aunt | Published 3:45 p.m. E.T. August 11, 2020 10 minute read SNAG SOME FENTY BEAUTY PRODUCTS I SWEAR BY WHAT IS FENTY SKIN? When Rihanna launched her Fenty Beauty line in September 2017, the world (at least the makeup world) went into a frenzy. Her release of forty shades of foundation (the line now has fifty shades) sparked a fire of conversations centered around inclusivity. Recently, on July 31, 2020, Rihanna re-sparked the inclusivity conversation with her launch of Fenty Skin, a skincare line designed for men and women. And, y’all already know, I had to try out the products. Rihanna’s release of Fenty Skin came at the right time for me; I had been longing to revamp my skincare routine, and the next thing I saw was an Inst...

Give Black Women Their Credit! : Their Influence in Gynecology

7Aug

By The Bougie Aunt2317 Comments

Education, Media/Culture

Give Black Women Their Credit! : Their Influence in Gynecology

The Bougie Aunt | Published 10:00 a.m. E.T. August 07, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES/WOMEN WHO ARE RELATED TO THIS ARTICLE *For this article, I will be referring to Africans, African Americans, Blacks, etc. all under the collective term of ‘Black’. Otherwise, it will be confusing trying to explain all the nuances in each. And, this is not the article for that discussion.* HOW THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT IS NEGLECTING BLACK WOMEN The Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM) has contributed to an increased awareness of how Black lives are being negatively affected by their needs being not catered to or met. The movement was able to gain great traction within these past months because of the pandemic allowing more peop...

We Cannot Talk About Sustainability and Not Talk About Race

24Jun

By The Bougie Aunt2556 Comments

Environment, Government

We Cannot Talk About Sustainability and Not Talk About Race

The Bougie Aunt | Published 8:00 a.m. E.T. June 24, 2020 Note: I am not a vegan/vegetarian hater; I just find some of the ideologies pushed out from the diets to be either hypocritical, propaganda, or both. Especially, when it is used to further sustainability. Recently, I published an article where I stated post-structuralist geography is the reason for Flint’s Water Crisis. Now, I am back with an additional point on how post-structuralist geography is morphing our environment; it is preventing the phenomenon of sustainability from diffusing to all socioeconomic levels. The fear-induced search for a way to conserve natural resources but also further industrial development began around the mid-eighteenth century when the Industrial Revolution emerged. Then, figure...

19Jun

By The Bougie Aunt3377 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism, Government

Juneteenth: An Uncelebrated Holiday

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 a.m. E.T. June 19, 2020 The year is 1863, you are an African-American slave, and President Abraham Lincoln just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. You are ecstatic because that automatically means you and your other slave companions are all released from the bonds of slavery, right? No, you are completely wrong. But I can reason why, as the Emancipation Proclamation is often misunderstood, and consequently, taught wrong in schools. Since the Eurocentric narrative shapes the United States’s history of slavery to seem like a linear path where the starting point is the Transatlantic Slave Trade and cuts off immediately after Martin Luther King Jr. had his Kumbaya moment (that has increasingly become more whitewashed as the years pass), the...

Why Is College Board Attempting to Shorten History?

15Jun

By The Bougie Aunt13897 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism

Why Is College Board Attempting to Shorten History?

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 p.m. E.T. June 15, 2020 The College Board has recently been under fire for continuing to host Advanced Placement (AP) exams online in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary complaints revolved around the College Board blatantly disregarding the technology gap high school students face, which only widened during the virus outbreak, and became apparent after a plethora of students could not submit their exams due to technological difficulties. However, this is not the first time the College Board has acted ignorantly. This past academic school year, 2019-2020, the College Board altered their AP World History class; they changed it to AP World History: Modern. As the name implies, the revised course deals only with history the College Boar...

Malcolm X: X’ed Out of the American Curriculum

8Jun

By The Bougie Aunt2501 Comments

Education, Eurocentrism

Malcolm X: X’ed Out of the American Curriculum

The Bougie Aunt | Published 6:30 p.m. ET June 8, 2020 The past few weeks have highlighted the tense racial relations in America. It has allowed for the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to be at the forefront of news, not only in America, but also globally. The newfound attention has also brought about a sharp divide in beliefs surrounding the best way to promote rightful change for the living standards of Blacks in America. One of the hotly debated arguments are the riots, whether they are reversing the work of the BLM movement or furthering it. Dissidents of the riots are often quick to cite Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of peaceful civil disobedience that enacted governmental change. Like Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms who said the riots were not “hono...