The hugely popular body positivity movement, which has always been apart of black culture (because we have celebrated our natural curves for centuries), is now dominated by white women and when ...

Undermedicated and unprotected, the black female slave’s body functioned as the laboratory and surgical specimen for white male doctors such as Dr. J. Marion Sims (pdf), who in the mid-19th ...

Black women are refusing to have their bodies policed. Although body positivity was created in the 1960s, recently, the movement has become incredibly popular on social media, with 11.5 million ...

Thursday's roundtable discussion centers on African-American women and body image — how they view health, obesity and eating disorders. Guests: Rovenia Brock, author of Dr. Ro's Ten Secrets to ...

Though Kim is a white woman, during her six-year marriage to the rapper Kanye West, she appeared noticeably more tanned and curvy, in what some Black women saw as an appropriation of their bodies ...

The ire-inducing advertisement shows still images of dark-skinned woman with body wash. In subsequent frames, she ... Was Dove saying that inside every black woman is a smiling redheaded white ...

The next time you see a Black woman celebrating her body on social media, resist the urge to comment on her age, her relationship status, or her “appropriateness.” ...

Generally, non-Hispanic Black men and women have lower body fat percentages and higher muscle mass compared with non-Hispanic white people and Mexican Americans (5, 6).

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Body Shaming Black Female Athletes Is Not Just About Race. 8 minute read. ... They seem to endure more body shaming than their white, less successful counterparts.