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1BlessedNatural:  Tracee Ellis Ross with her natural hair in Bantu knot out (photo cred: Tracee Ellis Ross/Instagram) Yesterday, Tracee Ellis Ross announced her new hair care line called Pattern. The Black-ish star said the products were for people with "curly, coily, and tight textured hair" specifically types 3b to 4c. The line is set to launch online at 9 pm ET on September 9th.  Ross said she'd been working on the line since 2008 when the show  Girlfriends ended. The actress also spent an additional 2 years working closely with chemists on the products. She said that all of the ingredients were safe and tested by herself and her panel."I tried 74 different samples to get these samples to phase one," Ross said. View this post on Instagram BRAIDS ~ @blackishabc A post shared by Tracee Ellis Ross (@traceeellisross) on Aug 27, 2018 at 4:47pm PDT The 46-year-old said Pattern ...

1BlessedNatural: Mo'nique (photo cred: Mo'nique/Instagram) Through the years, actress and comedian Mo'nique has been open about her mental health and weight loss. She recently talked about how she battled depression with exercise. Every time the actress got depressed, she would go for a walk. In an Instagram video, Mo'nique said this: "For those of you who feel like you can't get up, you can't move... When I was feeling that way baby, I started walking. I started walking and I started dealing with Mo'nique. When there was nobody else around to answer me but Mo'nique. And I had to have some real tough, honest conversations with myself." The 51-year-old actress  has been receiving DM's from other women who have been battling depression. According to Angela-Neal Barnett of the Anxiety and Depression of Association of America , Black women suffer more with anxiety than their white counterparts. Mo'nique said she had to spen...

1BlessedNatural: Promise Mi'Amor determined to wear her natural hair to school (photo cred: Facebook/Qui Daugherty) Recently, a video of 10-year-old Promise Mi'Amor went viral when she said she was determined to wear her natural hair back to a school in Nashville,Tennessee despite being bullied. The video which received more than 600,000 views on Facebook alone featured the little girl stating that she was bullied for wearing her hair in an Afro the day before. She said, "Yesterday I went to school and I wore my Afro like this. And a lot of people had a lot of mean things to say about it. So, that made me feel some type of way." After telling her mother Qui Daugherty, who is also a coach about the bullying she told the little girl to not forget who she was. Little Promise announced that she was going to go back to school with her hair "bigger and better than ever!" She also had a piece of advice for people who were watching the video. She said...