Miraculously, if only briefly, the torrent let up. “Did you notice the minute he brought out the blunts, the rain stopped?” said Blake Newby, a beauty and style editor at Essence. But it was a sign.”Symbolism was rife on Thursday, both subtly and overtly. Walker, a daughter of enslaved Louisianans who went on to train 23,000 sales agents to hawk Black hair care products, becoming America’s first self-made female millionaire. “Historically, Black beauty was valued less than white-centric beauty,” she said.

Source: New York Times July 09, 2021 18:11 UTC