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ALLURE OCTOBER 2016

BEST OF BEAUTY PHOTOGRAPHER: SØLVE SUNDSBØ MODEL: AYA JONES STYLING: BEAT BOLLIGER HAIR: RUDI LEWIS MAKE-UP: VAL GARLAND NAILS: MARIAN NEWMAN

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PRADA GOES WES ANDERSON –> http://nwf.sh/2d751Xv

Models walked down the Prada Spring/Summer 2017 runway with David O'Russel’s film installation as a backdrop.

Straight from the runway, explore all the looks, online now.

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Why do black people straighten their hair if non-black people can't get corn row/ box braid/ whatever you consider a "black" hairstyle

why do white people always try to make this non-point false equivalence when they know these are two completely different realities that don’t compare on any plane whatsoever

white people not only make black people hate their hair at an individual emotional level but literally at a systemic level in which black people are and have been for the last century unable to get jobs, attend colleges, enlist in the armed forces, etc. because of the treatment of their natural hair. there literally is nothing white people have to compare…

white people are not getting box braids because they feel pressured to, or out of fear that they won’t have access to a job or anything, but instead because they know it’s an “edgy black people thing” that they’re doing to be counter culture and subversive. there is literally no pressure on earth for anyone INCLUDING BLACK PEOPLE to worship or utilize Black hairstyles or Black hair in its natural state and you fucking know it. It’s literally the complete opposite for white hair. grow up

white people are not gelling down baby hairs for social mobility or financial security or comfort or assimilation.

why do black women feel the need to wear weave?

History Lesson: History Lesson : Why Women Of Color In The 1800s Were Banned From Wearing Their Hair Out In Public

BGLH writes:

“Did you know that in late 18th century Louisiana, black and multiracial women were ordered to cover their hair in public?”

Ciara’s “Inelegant” New Hairstyle And The Politics Of Black Hair

Man Sues Railroad After Co-Worker Cuts His Dreadlocks

Faith Christian Academy: Confront guilty students for bullying; not fault victims for wearing their hair in its natural state

A 7-year-old Tulsa girl was sent home form her elementary school because her dreadlocks were too much of a distraction, Fox 23 News Tulsa reports.

Ohio School Apologizes; Lifts Ban on Afro Puffs and Braids

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Milwaukee teacher cuts off little girl’s natural hair as punishment, throws it away in front of her

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12 year old Vanessa VanDyke is being threatened with expulsion from Faith Christian Academy in Orlando unless she cuts her natural hair.

Read the ads

“MEN WHO GO PLACES” “WAS IT HER RESUME OR HER RELAXER?” white people don’t have ads telling them “you will not be successful in life unless you have cornrows and box braids with gelled down baby hairs” because that isn’t the case. address this in the context of reality, maybe???

Also white people don’t own the claims to straight hair. Even though they have tried to and force people into assimilation, through creating and reinforcing hegemonic beauty ideals and standards that play into laws and social interactions. it’s not theirs! Anyone can grow straight hair, the shit is not theirs!

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FAO Marc Jacobs: 👆🏾🙈

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white person: if you hate white people so much then stop using the computer that white people invented.

me:

A Black Man Invented The PC As We Know It Today…

You may not have heard of Dr. Mark Dean. And you aren’t alone. But almost everything in your life has been affected by his work. See, Dr. Mark Dean is a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is in the National Hall of Inventors. He has more than 30 patents pending. He is a vice president with IBM. Oh, yeah. And he is also the architect of the modern-day personal computer. Dr. Dean holds three of the original nine patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. And, Dr. Mark Dean is an African American. So how is! it that we can celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IBM personal computer without reading or hearing a single word about him? Given all of the pressure mass media are under about negative portrayals of African Americans on television and in print, you would think it would be a slam dunk to highlight someone like Dr. Dean. Somehow, though, we have managed to miss the shot. History is cruel when it comes to telling the stories of African Americans. Dr. Dean isn’t the first Black inventor to be overlooked Consider John Stanard, inventor of the refrigerator, George Sampson, creator of the clothes dryer, Alexander Miles and his elevator, Lewis Latimer and the electric lamp. All of these inventors share two things: One, they changed the landscape of our society; and, two, society relegated them to the footnotes of history. Hopefully, Dr. Mark Dean won’t go away as quietly as they did. He certainly shouldn’t. Dr. Dean helped start a Digital Revolution that created people like Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Dell Computer’s Michael Dell. Millions of jobs in information technology can be traced back directly to ! Dr. Dean. More important, stories like Dr. Mark Dean’s should serve as inspiration for African-American children. Already victims of the “Digital Divide” and failing school systems, young, Black kids might embrace technology with more enthusiasm! if they knew someone like Dr. Dean already was leading the way. Although technically Dr. Dean can’t be credited with creating the computer – that is left to Alan Turing, a pioneering 20th-century English mathematician, widely considered to be the father of modern computer science – Dr. Dean rightly deserves to take a bow for the machine we use today. The computer really wasn’t practical for home or small business use until he came along, leading a team that developed the interior architecture (ISA systems! bus) that enables multiple devices, such as modems and printers, to be connected to personal computers. In other words, because of Dr. Dean, the PC became a part of our daily lives. For most of us, changing the face of society would have been enough. But not for Dr. Dean.. Still in his early forties, he has! a lot of inventing left in him. He recently made history again by leading the design team responsible for creating the first 1-gigahertz processor chip.. It’s just another huge step in making computers faster and smaller. As the world congratulates itself for the new Digital Age brought on by the personal computer, we need to guarantee that the African-American story is part of the hoopla surrounding the most stunning technological advance the world has ever seen.. We cannot afford to let Dr. Mark Dean become a footnote in history. He is well worth his own history book.