| No Images? Click here   In honor of "Chewing Gum's" Michaela Coel’s unabashed self-love, we’ve rounded up other empowering quotes from dark-skinned actresses, poets and musicians who take nothing but pride in their melanin:   Hundreds of black cowboys and cowgirls convened in Memphis, Tennessee, last weekend to compete at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo. Blackness is no stranger to cowboy culture.   Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) responded to sexual harassment allegations against Fox News host Bill O’Reilly with condemnation, saying he “needs to go to jail.” “It’s all catching up with Bill O’Reilly and that sexual harassment enterprise that they created over there at Fox,” Waters said Wednesday on MSNBC. Yara Shahidi has landed her own spinoff show. The actress talked to Jacques Morel for AOL’s Build Series about what viewers should expect from her “Black-ish” character, Zoey, who’s going off to college in the ABC hit show. The 17-year-old said the spinoff will explore Zoey’s new life at college and her growth along the way. 
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
7 reaffirming quotes from dark-skinned women
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