In director Bill Duke’s much buzzed-about documentary “Light Girls,” African-American women share emotional testimonials of what it’s like to grow up black, but light-skinned. Well-known African-American actresses and media personalities…
Goldfish crackers, Pop-Tarts and Cheez-Its are lunchbox and after-school staples for kids in America, but for one group of girls, these classics are not so appealing. – Follow HuffPost Teen…
We had always hoped the real life super-heroines of our time would wear masks. And then there were the Guerrilla Girls, a feminist art collective that started kicking the art…
Sunday night’s episode of “Girls” provided a lot of seemingly meta commentary on Lena Dunham and the reactions critics have to the personal nature of her work, but few puns….
Boko Haram’s murderous tactics have descended to a new barbaric low. Last Saturday, a bomb strapped to a schoolgirl exploded in the center of Maiduguri in Borno state, killing at…
I was the girl who hit up teachers before anyone else had a chance, the co-worker’s daughter who showed up in person before it became the norm to pass around…
With my girls in the second and third grade, I figured in the not too distant future it would be time for the “sex talk.” But now I’m wondering if…
Three girls, who looked no more than 14 or 15, were in their bathing suits, taking turns striking the most seductive poses possible, pushing up whatever breasts they had, while…
And, somehow, still alive. “She told me that her mom and dad were dead,” Wilkins said of the girl, Sailor Gutzler. “And that she had been in a plane crash.”…
The militant group has bombed schools, churches and mosques; kidnapped women and children; and assassinated politicians and religious leaders alike. This week, the group kidnapped at least 185 women and…