Creating Spaces To Support People
WORKING WHILE BLACK
What started as a project to find Bosses with locs turned into a series where we speak to Black leaders to identify the range of Blackness and hear their stories of new growth. You can watch from any device or listen along in your home or on the go.
What is Boss Locks?
a movement /boss L.O.C.K-S/ to create spaces for Black people to become leaders and pursue new growth in their personal, professional, and natural hair journey.
BossLocks is a platform created by Boss Locks Media that aims to educate, empower, and create opportunities for Black people to access resources, and grow in their journey. We are on a mission to raise the bar for racial equity and the way people are respected in professional environments.
My hope is that what we’re doing will help people who look like me, go after what they want without conforming to fit others expectations
Around April, you'll find most college seniors looking up Top 10 Interview Tips. Anxiety forms as they stress about not having a resume strong enough to land that entry level job. I on the other hand, found myself stressed because I didn’t know whether or not a company would hire me because of my locs. Even my best friend Google that usally never fails me only showed me a search result from 2012 about a someone who kept his locs and found success. But nothing about how to actually land a job interview and navigate corporate environments. Yeah you would come up with styling techniques, maybe yet another write up on celebrities with dreadlocks, but as my friend pointed out, I couldn't name a single well known CEO that had dreadlocks and didn't start out in Entertainment.
So I decided to do something about it. What started from curiosity turned into me sitting down with people with locs to learn more about their personal, career, and natural hair journey.
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What is freedom, How do we celebrate it, and Who Owns Juneteenth?
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill passed by Congress to set aside Juneteenth as a federal holiday. While the Black community has celebrated this day for decades, America is being introduced to this holiday for the first time and its getting mixed reactions.
Some ignore it, some don't quite understand it, and others want to own a piece of it. In today's episode, Chris Ward Jr joins the show to share how we can leverage content and storytelling to ensure that Juneteenth continues to be owned by the Black community.