Fourteen years separated Brown v. Board of Education from Green v. County School Board. In one sense, that seems extraordinary. The Supreme Court had ruled segregated public schools unconstitutional in 1954. Yet in 1968, it was still deciding what school…
By 2015, Bevel had already cleared the hard part, or you’d think so. Customers were buying Tristan Walker’s shaving system — built for men with coarse or curly hair — and coming back for replacement blades. The actual problem was…
Black shoppers make up 11.1% of spending in the American beauty market. Black-owned brands get 2.5% of the industry’s revenue back. And McKinsey found Black consumers are three times more likely than other shoppers to be unhappy with the hair,…
Somebody asked Coco Jones, in 2020, what happened to her career. Not gently either — it was one of those comments that’s blunt because the person genuinely doesn’t know, not because they’re trying to be mean. And look, it was…
The first Historically Black Colleges and Universities did not set out to offer a different version of American higher education. They opened because most colleges would not admit Black students. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania dates its beginning to 1837, when…
Most people don’t think much about how their house gets appraised until the number comes back lower than they expected. At that point it stops being an abstract exercise and starts determining real things: how much equity they can borrow…
