black beauty
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Both groups fed and inspired Brathwaite’s imagery, which consisted of elegant fashion shots and portraiture that celebrated the best of black beauty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019
And Erin Dyana Mclaughin says she used to follow YouTube makeup tutorials to make her appear lighter, until she decided to redefine black beauty for herself.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2019
Though she hasn’t seemed to care much about clearing up assumptions in the past—even when accounts dedicated to black beauty have reposted her images—she now states herself clearly.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018
Bey won a Grammy for “Lemonade” that night and extolled the virtues of black beauty in her speech.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
And so that beauty that Malcolm pledged us to protect, black beauty, was never celebrated in movies, in television, or in the textbooks I’d seen as a child.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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