Black women drive the fragrance counter but barely own it. Here are five Black-owned perfume houses that are still founder-owned — who owns each one, and the 10-second check to tell a real one from a marketing story. 📕 THE GUIDES — who really owns the Black beauty aisle, priced per ounce & sourced. Start…
Four Black-owned beauty brands came home. Taraji P. Henson bought TPH back, Lisa Price returned to Carol's Daughter as owner and president, and two Chicago women reclaimed Fashion Fair and Black Opal. 📕 THE GUIDES — who really owns the Black beauty aisle, priced per ounce & sourced. Start FREE → https://blackhistorydeclassified.com/guides/ We've spent a…
Three companies own most of your 4th of July cookout — Clorox owns the charcoal, McCormick owns Stubb's, Kraft Heinz owns the ketchup and hot dogs. And the best-selling BBQ sauce belongs to a fourth. Here's who cashes your cookout check, and 6 Black-owned brands to buy instead. A 4th of July cookout for ten…
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