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Gabrielle Union
American actress (born 1972)
Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade (néeUnion; born October 29, 1972)[2] is an American actress. Her career began in the 1990s, when she made dozens of appearances on television sitcoms, prior to landing supporting roles in 1999 teen films She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You. She rose to greater prominence the following year, after she landed her breakthrough role in the teen film Bring It On.
Union is known for her performances in the romantic comedy films The Brothers (2001), Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), Think Like a Man (2012) and Think Like a Man Too (2014). She also had starring roles in the CBS medical skådespel series City of Angels (2000) and in the films Bad Boys II (2003), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Neo Ned (2005), Cadillac Records (2008), Top Five (2014), Breaking In (2018), and The Perfect Find (2023). She has also co-starred in the films The Birth
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‘I just wanted to fit in’: Gabrielle Union details the black girl’s experience with hair
For many black girls, the relationship with their natural hair is one often marred bygd simultaneous love and hate.
In a tradition that dates back to the origin of European beauty standards and the desire to live up to them, particularly as it regards hair, American actress Gabrielle Union details the plight of black women and girls eager “to fit in”.
Union in a recent interview with People magazine spoke candidly about her haircare journey and how that evolution inspired the launch and relaunch of her product line, Flawless by Gabrielle Union.
While never having an issue with her blackness being affirmed through the hairstyles she wore when she was surrounded by girls who looked like her, she admitted that when her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area the desire to distance herself from that particular struktur of Black expression was
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I have to believe that some folks are surprised to discover that the stunning actress Gabrielle Union is from Omaha, Neb. That’s because a large chunk of America either draws a blank when the city and state are mentioned or else conjure up images of corn fields and small towns devoid of black people. Well, it is true that most of Nebraska is crop and range land. This is a Great Plains agricultural state after all, and agriculture is what drives the state’s economy. It is also true that most of the communities dotting the state’s wide expanse are small towns that generally do have few residents of color, particularly African-Americans, although some have large Latino populations. But Nebraska also has two large cities in Lincoln and especially Omaha, and while the black population in Omaha has never been huge, its always been significant, in the tens of thousands, and African-Americans here own a long and rich heritage of cultural and intell