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    Ida B. Wells was a determined journalist and a social justice fighter.  Growing up in the south during the era of prominent slavery and injustice she was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida B. Wells valued the power of education and her parents were very politically involved in social justice work after the Civil War took place.  A tragedy took her parents and one of her siblings early and she had to work as a teacher to take care of herself and surviving siblings. Captivated by the unfair racial practice of lynching, Wells started pushing informational pamphlets and newspaper articles on hate crimes for the public to see. This caused her to be a target and her printing press was burned down causing her to relocate to Chicago. In Chicago, she married a prominent lawyer and joined other activists that protested for equality. Ida B. Wells even stood up against other social groups ignoring African American inequalities at that time. Outside of her journa...

    From childhood, little girls are conditioned to love compliments. Families coddle their daughters with terms like "Pretty" "Sweetie" "Beautiful" "Adorable" etc. Little girls are taught to be feminine and soft hearted. They're taught to keep their hair kempt, and clothes polished. As those little girls are growing up, they are bombarded by the mainstream media's perception of beauty. It's in magazines, on television, on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and many other popular sites. For young black women there seem to be an added layer of pressure as they grow older. The strong impact of European beauty standards  continue to be displayed in a lot of prominent celebrities and social media influencers. There isn't much representation of the diverse looks in black culture. Most of the time a woman of lighter complexion with finer facial features and long hair is the "token" representation of beauty in the mainstream media f...