Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula has never been Black-owned, not once since the Neis family bought the company in 1971. Here are the five Black-owned skincare brands where the founder never sold the pen, checked against the actual ownership record and the real price per ounce. This is a buying guide, not a lecture. Every verdict…
Five keratin/Brazilian-blowout treatments carry a real FDA letter, OSHA citation, or lab test for formaldehyde behind a “formaldehyde-free” label. Two don’t. Here’s what the paperwork says. This is a receipts check, not a medical opinion — we pulled the FDA letters, OSHA citations, and lab results that already exist and checked which of these seven…
Five hair brands that have never been sold to a conglomerate, checked live on one day: who owns them, what size they come in, and the per-ounce number that actually decides it. Then the part nobody puts in these videos. On the same Target page, on the same day, the leave-in owned by Procter and…
Huey P. Newton ran 233 operations behind him when he slipped out of the country in 1974. That number isn’t a metaphor. Between 1968 and 1971, the FBI wire ran 233 separate documented operations against the Black Panther Party, more than against any other group in the history of its counterintelligence program. Newton counted them…
In 1969, the director of the FBI, I called the Black Panther Party, born 3 years earlier in Oakland, the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. He was not talking about their weapons. The most dangerous thing the Panthers ever built was an idea, and the man behind that idea was Huey…
Three Black-owned beauty houses — Bronner Brothers (1947), Luster Products (1957), and Dudley Beauty (1967) — never sold. Not to L'Oréal, not to Unilever, not to anybody. Here is the proof. We have spent the last several videos following the money in this aisle — who sold, who came back, and who never was ours…
Two clippers sit on the same shelf. One is forty dollars, one is a hundred twenty — and the cheap one is built to die. Here's the one number the box hides, and the five brands counting on you not knowing it. The Black barbershop built generational wealth for a hundred and fifty years —…
Skip Target — buy these 5 Black-owned beauty brands direct from their founders. The Lip Bar, Pattern, Bread, Pholk & Rose Ingleton MD. Same products, more money to the founder. Target rolled back its DEI programs in January 2025 — and you started a boycott. Here's how to keep buying the 5 Black-owned beauty brands…
The small Black-owned hair brands nobody talks about are usually cheaper per ounce than the famous names — and unlike half the famous shelf, they are still actually ours. You asked for the small ones in the comments, so here are six, with the founder and the price per ounce on every pick. Two videos…
Which "Black-owned" hair brands are still actually Black-owned? I pulled the cap tables and ranked the six that are still truly independent � by who really owns them and what they cost per ounce. Last time we found the six that AREN'T Black-owned anymore. This is the other half: the ones that still are. There…