Our Why

The Melenated Mall is a black owned business, focused on providing items, celebrating members of the global majority. Our brand highlights the black experience, black history by promoting positive black images. Encouraging buyers to see melenated greatness in everyday items. We believe all Melenated Lives Matter, regardless of sexual or gender identity, gender expression, national origin, immigration status, religious beliefs, economic status, ability or disability. We hope you find a reason to celebrate your melanin.

“The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise” – African Proverb

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Melanated Inspiration

– Angela Bassett

“Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us”

– Unknown

“Melanin is the most ancient and worldwide pigment in living organisms. The very thing that colours the bark on trees brown and the soil of the earth. It dwells in your very essence”

– Audre Lorde

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences”

– Janet Jackson

“I’m convinced that we black people possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but they get up, to get through, and to get over