The people, places, and things we love.
Impact starts with paying attention to each other. This page is where Beauty Boone shines a light: friends and family doing amazing things, Black-owned businesses worth your dollars, causes worth your attention, events worth your time, and books worth your shelf. Near and far, this is our community in the light.
Amazing beings, doing amazing things
Friends, family, and community members we're proud to know and prouder to point you toward.
Risha Rox
A corporealist: a body-centered interdisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, performance, installation, and makeup art. Her work feels spiritual, ancestral, and alive, holding the connection between different realms. She was featured artist and ritual designer on "Conspiracy," a video with Saul Williams. Her work · Instagram
Thema Bradford
A licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and therapist behind Elevated Self Counseling, Coaching & Consulting. Her course, How to Radically Soften: A Liberation Practice, is a guided, somatic practice for Black women ready to release over-functioning and move toward ease, presence, and self-trust.
Black-owned and loved
Businesses we've tried and stand behind. Spend where it builds community.
Fashion
You Matter
Where fashion meets compassion. Founded by Demetrius "Meech" Harmon, You Matter turns personal struggle into a universal message of hope and self-love, with quiet affirmations stitched into every piece. I watched my bonus-kid take our conversations about supporting Black-owned businesses to heart and start buying their gear, then found my own orange hoodie waiting on my office chair. The quality and the fit never disappoint, but the message is the reason: I wore mine most in a season when I needed the reminder that I mattered. Support them because they make beautiful, high-quality apparel that carries care in every thread. Shop You Matter →
Culture Wireless
A Black-owned internet service provider bringing affordable, high-quality access to communities the major telecoms have long neglected. Founded in 2021 in Atlanta's Vine City, they put community empowerment ahead of profit, so students, entrepreneurs, and families can compete in a digital economy. You can learn more and support their mission. Visit Culture Wireless →
Causes we carry
Organizations and efforts we want on your radar. Attention is a resource; here's where we're pointing ours.
A family seeking housing
A family in our community is working to secure stable housing. Every bit of support moves them closer. Support on GoFundMe →
Sew Green Fashion Camp 2026
A community member is raising funds for their fashion camp, teaching young people to create and design. Support the camp →
The Future of Congo
Supporting the people of the Congo and a more just future. Learn about the mission and give. Their work · Donate →
Out and about
Gatherings we've tried and loved, and ones on our radar.
On Our Radar
At the Edge of Joy
A conversation with Thema Bradford about our relationship to joy, anger, and the power of our emotions. Thursday, August 13, 2026, 6pm, on the Spill app. Get Spill →
More gatherings ahead
Events we've tried and loved, and ones we're looking forward to. Check back soon.
On our shelf
What we're reading, what's next, and what we can't stop recommending.
Nasty Work
by Ericka Hart. A national bestseller from an award-winning sexuality educator, taking down society's inherited colonial views on sex and gender. As a Black, queer, non-binary, disabled femme, Hart makes the case that sex ed done right is a tool for liberation, dismantling the oppressive myths that keep pleasure out of reach, especially for marginalized communities. I was so excited to see Ericka bring her work to life this way. May it challenge the narratives I don't yet know I'm holding, and provoke deep inquiry, reflection, and action. About the book · Buy on Bookshop →
Hood Wellness
by Tamela J. Gordon. Recommended by a friend, and exactly my kind of read: a funny, profound memoir on the intersection of Blackness and health that asks what self-care looks like while divesting from systems built to destroy us. It calls out the wellness industry's blind spots and makes the case for communal care over surface-level "cute." A Kirkus starred review.
Songs we've been vibing to
The soundtrack to this season.
Black Godis
Neptune XXI · Medicine Music II
God Gotta Afro
Rapsody · God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops
DRIP DE MANDRAKINDIA
Maria Preta MC
Healer
D'Leesa
Baknaffek
Das EFX · Generation EFX
Daddy Died
Earthsignchels
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