Stacey Patton

Award-winning journalist and Howard University professor Stacey Patton will be honored by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

In the United States, fat-shaming and fat-phobia are as American as apple pie. While the Black community is more likely to embrace obesity as curvy, that embrace often acts as a defense mechanism against mainstream and European standards of beauty—a standard which excludes anyone who isn’t White, thin and blonde, or some acceptable variation. Yet even […]