Do you think black women, who are overweight, want to be? Author Alice Randall thinks so. She shared her opinion in a New York Times article and the responses have lit up the Internet. In the article, she calls for a “body-culture revolution in Black America” in light of growing obesity and diabetes rates among […]

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Yesterday Alice Randall, a journalist, wrote a story for the New York Times entitled Black Women and Fat.  I’m going to confess- I dismissed this article before  I even read it. I dismissed this article because I’m sick and tired of negatively titled, negatively written, stereotypically written articles about black women.  Yes, even when they’re written by […]