Black Owned Beauty Brands & Becoming an Over 30 Racial Justice Influencer Episode Guide

Black Lives Matter

Hunnies, thank you for checking out this week's Natch Beaut.

Today I speak from the heart about the importance of educating ourselves on the systemic racism in our country, and I encourage the hunnies to join me on a mission to become well-versed and comfortable talking about it.

Plus, a shout-out to Black-owned beauty brands in every category.

Here is everything discussed on this episode.

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B'ellegant Cosmetics

Ace Beaute

Double Down Costmetics

The Lip Bar

Shea Moisture

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HOW YOU CAN HELP and/or HOW YOU CAN GET STARTED

• 200 Black Owned Indie Beauty Brands to shop from Right now. Thank you to Beauty Independent for this list.

• Cash out your Sephora Rewards points. Then, start makeup shopping from Marjani Beauty. Curbside pickup available in Washington, DC, as well as international shipping. 

• Places to Start 11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘This Has To Stop’ In The Wake Of Police Brutality

• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice from your own comfort zone and your own entry points. Thank you to Hayley Marie Norman for sharing this document.

• 75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice 

DONATIONS

• An extensive list of links to directly help black people, broken down with descriptions of each group/fund/cause, from In Defense of Black Life (linked from Nicole Byer's instagram) 

• A list made by the Ethnically Ambiguous podcast of resources to help protestors. Thank you Anna Hossnieh and Shereen Lani Younes.

• Helping Minneapolis Black-owned small businesses
  

Resources compiled and gathered by Hayley Marie Norman.

ARTICLES

• The Case for Reparations

• The 1619 Project 

• The Grim History of Jan 1

• Time’s 100 Photos – Emmett Till (and watch video at the bottom): 

• 10 Things You May Not Know About Rosa Parks

• Tuskegee Syphyllis Experiment

• America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters

• How Changes to Voting Laws Prompted Education Inequality

FILM/TV

• When They See Us on Netflix

• 13th on Netflix

• 12 Years a Slave on Netflix

• Eyes on the Prize on Amazon

• Slavery by Another Name on PBS

• Roots: 1977 original version on Amazon

• Roots: 2016 version on Amazon

AUDIO

• This American Life “History is Not a Toy”

• Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (read the lyrics)

• Code Switch podcast from NPR

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And thank you to the sponsors of this episode.

My portion of ad sales (those not given to the network to pay the producer, editor, sound engineer, ad team, and IT costs) will be donated to Black Lives Matter. 

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