How Hip-Hop's '90s and Y2K Beauty Trends Helped Shape Its Legacy

"Beauty is that visual indicator and communicator when nothing else is speaking," says Lawrence. "There's a direct correlation between Black communities seeing the freedom, liberation, and improvisation of hip-hop and identity formation and our community showing up in droves to support."

November 6, 2023

Prime Video Is Staging a Show of African Artists During Miami Art Week to Promote Its New Series ‘Riches’

Camille Lawrence of the Black Beauty Archives completed a video commission to anchor the exhibition, which places emerging artists alongside established talents……

November 28, 2022

A New York–based makeup artist is working to ensure Black culture’s impact on beauty finally gets the spotlight.

“For Lawrence, building the Black Beauty Archives is about much more than just solving a technical problem for makeup artists and hairstylists: it is about creating a resource for discovering and sharing Black history through the beauty rituals that facilitate the transmission of wisdom from one generation to the next.”

February 1, 2022

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities is an interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture. The goals of this project are threefold:

1. To help people find digital and public projects about Black history and culture by topic, type, location, contributors, and more.

2. To make it easier to see and build connections or networks across similar projects.

3. To enable deeper analyses of the Black Digital Humanities and Black Public Humanities as fields, including locating gaps and identifying potential interventions for growth.