BET’s Black Girls Rock: Empowering or Hypocritical?

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Last year, after Black Girls Rock, there was a negative backlash. Some people complained about women wearing weaves and fake nails during the premier.

There seemed to be a contradiction with Black Girls Rock. On one hand, it was supposed to encourage the arts for young women of color and encourage dialogue  about how women of color are portrayed in the media and then on the other hand the hosts, Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King, seemed to contradict the theme with their fake hair, nails and eyelashes and so on.

This year, BET’s “Black Girls Rock”  will premier on television on November 4th so we asked our readers, on our Facebook Page, the following question: “If hosts, Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King aren’t “au naturale”, will that contradict the organization’s purpose?”

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