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The Truth About Kylie Jenner's $800m Cosmetics Empire. Kylie Jenner's cosmetics empire was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine - America's most prolific business monthly. Whilst much contention was raised about the claims that her wealth was "self-made" (which it wasn't), the bigger question was how this actually happened - and the numbers behind it. Jenner's "Kylie Cosmetics" business has raked in an estimated $660m in sales during its 3 year lifespan, with $330m in 2017 alone. Whilst the business is private, and thus its numbers are not publicly available, even if these estimates were 50% off, the figures would be staggering. What's more - the "company" only has 7 full time employees. Everything from packaging to PR is outsourced, and the only way that Jenner gets customers i...

These White people aren’t just checking their privilege. They’re using it to bring about positive racial change. Social justice demands more now than we’re used to giving, and it isn’t only the responsibility of people of color to demand change. These White people are not just checking their privilege, they’re also leveraging it to bring about justice. Jane Elliott The morning after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, Jane Elliott tried something new in her Iowa classroom. “I exposed 26 third-grade students to an exercise in discrimination based on the color of their eyes,” she says. This became known as the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, and has been demonstrated as an effective tool to teach children about racism. Racism could be learned, she realized, and ther...

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The Leveraging Of 110m Instagram Followers