Black Girl Viral
Senegal’s Black Girl Magic Photo Goes Viral Photo credit: The Source
A picture showing five young, confident, and beautiful black women wearing Nike shirts and sneakers went viral. The photo shows these young women wearing turbans and skirts designed with traditional African prints while wearing Nike apparel and holding basketballs.
Ben Bailey Smith posted the picture to Twitter and it spread like wildfire and traveled across different social media platforms. The image was retweeted, reposted, and made waves on the internet. The photo received 51,000 likes and over 17,000 retweets.
The image appears to depict how women in African can also embrace the sport of basketball. It also shows the huge impact of the sport to young African-American women. The giant sports brand Nike is almost synonymous to basketball which makes sense why …show more content…
These women are not exploited and in fact, remains in good hands with the Seed Program.
Black Girl Magic
The five young black women actually represent the students with the highest GPA’s at the Seed Academy Girls. The boarding school is located in Senegal where 20 students received free academic and basketball scholarships. These young women have the chance to get educated and at the same time, train in basketball. This is similar to how college basketball players are groomed in the U.S.
The photoshoot was produced by Folasade Adeoso, a Nigerian-American artist and graphic designer. The photo along with several others was conceptualized to help promote the project and generate funding for the school. The project is called Picture us Ballin.
Noah Levine, the Seed Project’s executive director said they wanted their students to show the rest of the world how they wanted to be seen and perceived. The Seed Project is a nonprofit group in the U.S. which provides after-school programs for students across Senegal and
A picture showing five young, confident, and beautiful black women wearing Nike shirts and sneakers went viral. The photo shows these young women wearing turbans and skirts designed with traditional African prints while wearing Nike apparel and holding basketballs.
Ben Bailey Smith posted the picture to Twitter and it spread like wildfire and traveled across different social media platforms. The image was retweeted, reposted, and made waves on the internet. The photo received 51,000 likes and over 17,000 retweets.
The image appears to depict how women in African can also embrace the sport of basketball. It also shows the huge impact of the sport to young African-American women. The giant sports brand Nike is almost synonymous to basketball which makes sense why …show more content…
These women are not exploited and in fact, remains in good hands with the Seed Program.
Black Girl Magic
The five young black women actually represent the students with the highest GPA’s at the Seed Academy Girls. The boarding school is located in Senegal where 20 students received free academic and basketball scholarships. These young women have the chance to get educated and at the same time, train in basketball. This is similar to how college basketball players are groomed in the U.S.
The photoshoot was produced by Folasade Adeoso, a Nigerian-American artist and graphic designer. The photo along with several others was conceptualized to help promote the project and generate funding for the school. The project is called Picture us Ballin.
Noah Levine, the Seed Project’s executive director said they wanted their students to show the rest of the world how they wanted to be seen and perceived. The Seed Project is a nonprofit group in the U.S. which provides after-school programs for students across Senegal and