DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The world’s biggest cosmetics companies have been selling a fairy tale that often goes something like this: If your husband’s lost interest in you, if your colleagues dismiss you at work, if your talents are ignored, whiten your skin to turn your love life around, boost your career and command centre stage.
After repeatedly being denied service by high-end salons because her hair was perceived as “too difficult” to style, Kanessa Alexander took an unusual step. She opened a shop of her own in a predominantly white Boston neighbourhood with four Black stylists serving all hair textures.
Mini bottles of sanitizer, monogrammed with the newlyweds' initials, lined a table outside the venue of Royston and Rachel Grosjean's July 4 wedding so guests could clean their hands before the festivities began.
As the clock ticks down to September, a new poll suggests many Canadian parents are on the fence about whether to send their kids to school if and when classrooms are reopened.
The first Friday after schools in Britain close for the summer is always one of the busiest for the country’s airports as families escape for the warmer climes of southern Europe, from Portugal’s Algarve in the west to the island nation of Cyprus to the east. Not this year. The coronavirus pandemic has ended all that.
