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Vanessa Baden strips away the pressures of society and exposes her vulnerability while talking about skincare, motherhood, and her natural hair journey.

Emmy Award-winning writer and actress, Vanessa Baden’s book, Far Away From Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman in Progress reveals issues that many of us experience as a Black woman living in America. The book, which releases on May 4th, is a collection of essays, exploring what home means for a Black millennial woman. A simple definition of home is the place Black people in the United States question, is this my home? With the racial uprising of last summer, it kind of made anywhere in America feel unsafe. When asked about her book she clearly states, “I don’t think that it is everybody’s story, but I think that everybody can find a piece of their story somewhere in my book.”

 

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