A mother-daughter duo in the United Kingdom has been grabbing eyeballs because as they have given a new dimension to the Black Lives Matter movement. Faith, 6, and her mother, Serlina Boyd, have launched two magazines called ‘Cocoa Boy’ and ‘Cocoa Girl’ to promote black culture among people of all races and genders.
What started as a home experiment has now turned into a sensation. Faith had wanted to read magazines as part of her homeschooling lessons during the lockdown. She had been disappointed not to find even one single person whom she could relate to in any of them. That is when it hit them that the world needed magazines that were representative of people of colour.
When she had told this to her mother, who is a graphic designer, she had immediately created the magazine with Faith as the editor, deciding whatever went into it and the overall outlook. Serlina, the mother said, “These magazines aren’t just for black children, they are for children from all races as it teaches them about the black culture and black history.”
These two have already sold hundreds of copies since the magazine’s conception, and publishers from around the world have asked for it to be translated into different languages.