Black women spend nine point four billion dollars a year on beauty, and own about two and a half percent of the industry that sells it back to them. This breaks down who actually owns the Black hair aisle: the brands, the beauty-supply stores, and the distribution system that keeps Black-owned businesses off the shelf,…
One thing shapes the whole aisle: the Global Shea Alliance counts roughly sixteen million women whose households depend on shea across the belt where the tree grows. Every jar here starts in their hands. Become A Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb49IBN25rnzvsi5MyRgfYQ/join THE FIVE THE LISTS GET WRONG (owner on the record): • O-KAY Pure Naturals — a Miami…
You asked who really owns these brands, so we pulled the records on all seven. Who owns each one today, what it costs per ounce, and whether to buy it, wait on it, or just know the truth. This is a buying guide, not a lecture. You named the brands; we checked the cap table…
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage Avenue. FBI records show the C4 inside that bomb had been pre-positioned in a Police Academy locker since January — four months earlier.
Sidney Gottlieb built MK-Ultra across 80 institutions. The chapter every documentary skips: seven Black men in a Kentucky prison, dosed with LSD for 77 consecutive days at quadruple strength.
November 2nd, 1979. Three people walked into the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey carrying fake IDs. The guards never checked them. They walked into the visitor room, pulled out concealed 45 caliber pistols and a stick of dynamit
February 1953, Malcolm walks out of Charles Town State Prison in Massachusetts after six and a half years behind bars. He entered as Malcolm Little, a 20-year-old convicted burglar who could barely write a complete sentence. He left as Malcolm X and
December 4th, 1969. 5:29 a.m. Chicago police burst into a westside apartment with a Thompson submachine gun. They fired 99 rounds. Fred Hampton, 21-year-old deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was shot twice in the head while sleepin
September 18th, 1960, an 18-year-old named George Jackson was arrested for armed robbery at a Los Angeles gas station. $71 were stolen. Nobody was hurt. It was his second robbery charge, but the first as an adult. His courtappointed lawyer told him t
August 28th, 1963, 5:30 in the morning, Bayard Rustin stood alone on the National Mall, staring at empty grass. In 4 and 1/2 hours, a quarter million people were supposed to show up for the largest demonstration in American history. They weren’t comi