"The idea of 'Black Girl Magic' in and of itself is just a celebration of the accomplishments of African-American women in various sectors within society, and typically those where we're underrepresented, such as the judiciary here in Harris County," ...
Erica Hughes is the presiding judge for Harris County Criminal Court-at-Law Number 3. Hughes is a former Army lawyer who still serves in the Texas Army National Guard. She's one of the Houston 19, the group that has also come to call themselves, " Harris County Black Girl Magic .".
Meet 'Black Girl Magic,' The 19 African-American Women Elected As Judges In Texas. Harris County, Texas, one of the most diverse urban areas of the country, now has 19 African-American women on the bench. The group calls itself "Black Girl Magic.".
Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke lost the state to Republican Ted Cruz, but he carried Harris County by 17 points. "Obviously, we benefited from straight-ticket voting," Judge Shannon Baldwin says. "Even more so, we benefited from Beto O'Rourke and what he was able to accomplish in Harris County.
But in episode 305 Missy’s carefully crafted photo shoot plans go left when the brown-skinned model she chose to shoot with the basketball star books a last minute Vogue shoot and gets swapped for a lighter-skinned model.
Director Victoria Mahoney was especially careful in her treatment of the scene and the actresses. As a both a black and lighter-skin-toned woman, it was important for all sides of the story to be told. Mahoney, of course, brought her own experiences to the table as well.
Missy is the one with all the privilege, which is what Trina means when she says, “My man ain’t reppin’ Cam Calloway.”. Writer and executive producer of the episode, Ali LeRoi explains it best, “When a light-skinned woman who’s got a baby and she’s trying to live her life.
Furthermore, colorism is individually responsible for eroding the self-esteem of many black women. Just look at Lil’ Kim. When I asked Ali LeRoi, the writer and executive producer of the episode, what inspired him to tell this story this way, he confessed, “I’m married to a black woman.
NASA wanted Glenn’s capsule to land in a specific place in the ocean. If it struck land, he would die. If it approached Earth at too shallow an angle, it would bounce off the planet’s atmosphere. His anxieties intensified as weather and equipment failures caused cancellation of the launch five times.
Black women at NASA didn’t attract feature-length attention in black media until 1992, when Mae Jemison, the first black woman to train as a NASA astronaut (she joined NASA in 1987), was featured on the cover of Jet.
He was one of the world’s greatest basketball players. As she cried, Magic Johnson reached his giant right hand out and placed it on her shoulder. Neither knew what their futures held, but they had one thing in common bigger than both of them: They were HIV-positive.
1991: Magic Johnson's HIV announcement. On a recent March night in Los Angeles, Johnson again hugged Hydeia, his 6-foot-9 frame dwarfing her diminutive 4-foot-8 stature. Both were on hand for the screening in Los Angeles of “The Announcement,” an ESPN documentary about his coming forward with HIV.
Hydeia’s tearful plea as a child is replayed in the documentary. Twenty years after their first encounter, both continue to be pivotal voices for those with HIV: he the superstar who tested HIV-positive after having unprotected sex; she the innocent child infected with AIDS by a drug-using mom.
At the Bethesda medical facility, Hydeia, then 5, caught the eye of Elizabeth Glaser, the wife of actor Paul Michael Glaser from the hit TV show “Starsky & Hutch.”.
Glaser represented a woman and mother with HIV. Johnson put the face of a superstar to the cause. And Hydeia symbolized the children of America suffering from HIV/AIDS. Together, they worked with the foundation to spread the message of the far-reaching effects of HIV/AIDS.
They think Magic’s cured,” she said. “There is no cure.”. The past 20 years have seen dramatic improvement in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Although a positive test result is no longer a death sentence, Hydeia says, “it’s a life sentence.”. “It’s always there. You’re always going to have HIV or AIDS.