Building self-esteem in young girls
BY LAURA MULROONEY, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Body shaming is the act of making critical comments about one’s size or weight, whether it is toward …
Caring for Girls’ Inaugural Seminar
BY HOLLY KESTENIS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – Caring for Girls Academy, Inc. held its first ever seminar last month in an effort to not only get their …
How to change your image
BY VALECIA WEEKS, Houston Forward Times Why do we care about how we look? Since the beginning of time, we as women have concerned ourselves with our appearance …
When Black Venus was the ideal standard of beauty
A beautiful black woman stands in an elegantly twisting pose, her naked body rising in a series of fluidly shifting forms. She is the embodiment of Venus, the …
Hope for the future
BY CINDY CARTER, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — British Dancy wants the world to know how a little respect and a lot of love can turn around lives. She is the …
The dark skin female beauty revolution
BY RASHIDA STROBER, The Dark Skin Activist Newsflash! Dark skin women are beautiful! Make no mistake that many of us already knew this. However, it is an …
Positive self-talk
BY VALECIA WEEKS Let’s use the photo part of our brain and picture that you are doing your weekly weigh-in and you just know in your mind that you’ve lost …