“You can’t win a war if you’re going to go in angry,” says Bethann Hardison, surrounded by the 1991 Black Girls Coalition.

Eye of the Beholder

Model, agent, and activist Bethann Hardison has had an indelible effect on the beauty and fashion industries. On the release of a new documentary, she sets the record straight with our beauty-and-wellness columnist

By Linda Wells

“She, to me, is Black history,” says Tyson Beckford.

“She was like the Statue of Liberty,” says Iman.