Jack & Jill Politics

By Jeneba Ghatt

When three moms, lawyers chronicling their lives balancing family and work on their blog MamaLaw, discovered they weren’t getting the same opportunities as mainstream bloggers, they reached out to their bloggers of color and discovered they were not alone.

At that point, the trio decided to do something about it by establishing Blogalicious, a weekend-long lifestyle blogging conference for and about women of color bloggers with the focus to connect them with major brands.

The team has since dwindled down to two.  Justice Jonesie, an original  member of Mama Law Media determined the stresses of producing the conference so far from her home in Jacksonville, FL was too much.

The remaining members Stacie “Justice Fergie” Ferguson and Nyasha “Justince Ny” Smith have soldiered on. Both want to reach out to companies that had no idea women of color were blogging.

“A lot of brands just didn’t realize we existed and they didn’t realize that there were lots of women of color out here blogging,” said Nyasha Smith, co-founder of The Social Niche Company which produces the annual conference held this year in the Gaylord hotel at National Harbor, MD.  “A lot of brands also didn’t realize about how diverse was the content women of color were blogging. We’re not just mommy bloggers or fashion, but we do food, politics we really run the gamut.”

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