Alabaster Box Media Group, a boutique multimedia publishing house, announces the release of My Afrikah Hair, masterfully written and illustrated for black girls everywhere. Using hair as a metaphor and model for self-esteem, author Melanie Houston weaves a journey and a movement from Africa to America, from infancy to elderhood. The elegant art of internationally renowned Bahamian…
Point BY IRIS COOPER, DBA I am so sick of talking about domestic violence (DV). There was a time when I would tell no one what was going on behind the closed doors in my life. I should have received an Academy Award for my portrayal as a happily married banking executive. I had it…
Reflecting back on my hair journey, I now see that it was finely woven in other aspects of my life. The analogy is clear. Imagine, sisters of the Diaspora, the state of your hair before you sit at the lap of a freshly anointed African braider. Your hair asserts a life of its own, and…
