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The evolution of self-love in Black history
Brut America
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3/25/2025
What exactly is #BlackGirlMagic? Why did the Black is Beautiful movement begin?
Digital creator and history buff Taylor Cassidy J explores the importance of self-love in Black history.
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Whenever black people would wear their afros, whenever they would love their wide noses and
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bigger lips, it would say that they are rejecting these standards and these rules that were thrust
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upon them. The Black is Beautiful movement started in the 1960s with civil rights,
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as more and more people were starting to reject Eurocentric beauty standards that were forced on
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them and embrace Afrocentric beauty features that were initially and honestly even now deemed as
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undesirable. That contributed to the civil rights movement because it helped them realize and helped
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them push the notion that, hey, we're valuable and we're going to stand in just who we are
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without having to change. The Black is Beautiful movement was not the first movement surrounding
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around the uplifting of black culture. There was movement in the 1920s called the Harlem Renaissance
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whenever black literature, art, and music was really popularized. Honestly, jazz was really
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popularized from black culture during that time. What was different about the Black is Beautiful
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movement is that now it was encompassed in every part of culture, in every facet of
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black communities. Even now we see movements like the natural hair movement carrying the legacy of
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the Black is Beautiful movement by, once again, restating those notions that the features that
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African-American women and men have of natural hair is enough and you don't need to change it.
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Another movement we've seen today is the Black Girl Magic movement. It was started by Kashawn
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Thompson on Twitter with the hashtag Black Girls Are Magic after seeing a lot of articles degrading
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black women. Hashtags like these have roots in the Black is Beautiful movement, in the Harlem
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Renaissance, in the natural hair movement. These movements come from the continuous rejection
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and discrimination of black features. So it's not one singular event that happens that sparks these
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movements, but it's a continuous system that does not change that warrants these movements to keep
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pursuing that change and that movement toward equality and acceptance of all features. On social
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media there are many communities, many groups that are in direct opposition of movements like this
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that discriminate against black people and just spread hate. So it is black people that come and
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make these homes for black people to come to so that their features can be celebrated, so that
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their victories can be uplifted, so that we are not silenced and that we are not pushed to the
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bottom of the barrel. On my account, I try to promote positivity and self-love and I make sure
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to only share values that I've either lived through, that I've experienced, or that I am
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currently working through because the most valuable part is authenticity and if you can't
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see the love in my eyes and if you can't hear the kindness and love in my voice, then it's just fake.
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