Healthy Roots Dolls help young Black girls see themselves in positive light
and last updated 2021-02-23 16:32:37-05
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. â Zoe Doll is loved by girls all over the country. Healthy Roots Dolls CEO and founder Yelitsa Jean-Charles says her own childhood experience inspired the creation of Zoe. She says she never saw dolls that looked like her growing up.
âIt has an impact on your self-esteem, Jean-Charles said. I know that I struggled with loving my natural hair. I know that when my parents tried to give me a Black doll, I actually started crying because it wasnât the one that I saw in the commercials with the long blonde hair and all that jazz.â
Amblin to Adapt Walter Mosley s Easy Rawlins Books for TV
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Feb. 23, 2021
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Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins will be sleuthing his way back to the screen. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television has closed a deal to develop and produce a television series adapted from Walter Mosley’s bestselling gritty historical fiction mystery series starring Rawlins, one of literature’s most popular Black investigators.
The drama, based on Mosley’s fifteen novels and collection of short stories centered on the WWII army veteran turned hard-boiled private eye, will be set in 1950’s Los Angeles. Per the logline, the show will honor the great traditions of storytelling in the detective genre, while also exploring the racial inequities and social injustice experienced by BIPOC and other non-white people.
Grondahl: Albany s dashing, pioneering Black entrepreneur
Legacy of Adam Blake Jr. lives in the work of local historians, new one-man show
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Re-enactor Donald Hyman portrays Adam Blake Jr. Blake is one of the most extraordinary entrepreneurial success stories of 19th-Century Albany a man whose rags-to-riches rise is often likened to a Horatio Alger tale. Show MoreShow Less
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Donald Hyman s one-man show portrays Adam Blake Jr. Blake built the landmark Kenmore Hotel on North Pearl Street, owned a string of restaurants and hotels and hobnobbed with governors. Show MoreShow Less
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Historical re-enactor Donald Hyman portrays Adam Blake Jr. Blake was a Black man whose father was enslaved, which makes his ascent in a white-dominated economy even more remarkable. Show MoreShow Less