Curly Nikki’s ‘BeHerSummit’ empowers Black women to celebrate inner and outer beauty
The virtual summit will focus on wellness, beauty, entrepreneurship, spirituality and creativity
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Nikki Walton, the entrepreneurial force behind CurlyNikki, is hosting the BeHerSummit this weekend to empower multicultural, millennial women and help them celebrate their inner and outer beauty.
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Walton, who created the successful Curly Nikki brand that helped foster a cultural shift in the acceptance of natural hair, wants this summit to encourage women to focus on being more than just their ‘best’ selves.
“I want the women who attend this event to walk away knowing that self-care is not selfish and to stop focusing on being their best self, but to instead focus on being their whole self. Women have always been our whole selves, and we do not have to become; we just need to be,” Walton told
Ten-year-old Clearwater environmentalist to lead big beach cleanup at Sand Key Park this weekend
Gia Walton launched Help Gia Save the Ocean
Ten-year-old Clearwater environmentalist to lead big beach cleanup at Sand Key Park this weekend
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CLEARWATER, Fla. â Gia Walton loves to pick up trash, especially along and in our waterways. Sea creatures think that trash is food! Gia warns.
The 10-year-old from Clearwater made cleaning the oceans her life s mission.
Nikki Walton
Help Gia Save the Ocean originated last year when the fifth-grader at Discovery Academy of Science in Dunedin urged classmates to help her pick up trash around the school during PE.
read that. it reminds me again why hair matters. joining me today, nicole arie-parker, leading actress on streetcar named desire which i have seen twice and have tickets for a third time. and anthea butler, professor of religious studies and graduate chair of religion at university of pennsylvania. joan morgan returning to nerdland. author of when chicken heads come home to roost. and nikki walton, founder of curly niki.com and author of better than good hair. thank you, all, for being here. and for and for being throng have this conversation. for me, black women s hair, the politics of it, seem obvious. but i realize that it may not be obvious to everyone, particularly maybe to our viewers who haven t encountered these questions before. help me make the case for why black hair matters?
salange knowles, the sister of beyonce, who we have an obsession with on mhp. we want it done, whatever the grooming it. we want it done. when i talk about the industry, it s not just the products industry, it s also like the informational industry. curling, nikki, is about creating a community where people are having this conversation. and working it out. exactly. i am proud to be able to provide a positive platform for women who come in a safe place and encourage each other, share, and get this information, and it goes beyond the aesthetic and goes back to what you were saying, self acceptance, accepting hair for what it looks like, whether you want to get up and go, or twist and braid out, and no judgment. for the most part, myself and
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