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Writing young lovers into art history and more with artist Kennedi Carter | CRWN

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019African American Culture, Natural Hair

When you peer through the deep reds of Kenndi Carter’s work, you’re not just squinting into a love story. Under the blood of her work you catch highlights almost golden to the touch , deep skin and shadow navigating as its own character. The subject: young lovers. Carter sometimes builds images featuring young lovers using […]

Simplistic Beauty with Kenya Meon | CRWN

November 29, 2019December 26, 2019African American Culture, Natural Hair

For this CRWN Muse, muted tones, grounding natural life and brown skin are the cornerstone of her work. Kenya Meon, a Macon, Georgia-born photography fell in love with photography for the freedom, and in 2010, moved to Atlanta to pursue the arts. Throughout the course of her timeline takeover she shared poetic captions celebrating the […]

Black Hair’s Blockbuster Moment | The New York Times

February 28, 2018African American Culture, African American Fashion ...

Despite and perhaps because of a surge in white supremacist language in the United States, a wave of black cultural resistance is flooding the arts as well as the streets.

When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code | NPR

July 20, 2017July 20, 2017African American Culture, KOLUMN ...

Raising teenage girls can be a tough job. Raising black teenage girls as white parents can be even tougher. Aaron and Colleen Cook knew that when they adopted their twin daughters, Mya and Deanna.

Let Go of Our Hair and Let Our Girls Learn – The Root

May 23, 2017African American Culture, KOLUMN ...

In recent weeks, there have been a number of news stories about black girls being discriminated against at school for wearing natural hairstyles.

50 Other Black Owned Hair & Beauty Brands to Support – Shoppe Black

April 25, 2017July 1, 2017#BuyBlack, African American Culture ...

Hair care is a multibillion-dollar industry fueled primarily by Black women. We spend A LOT of money – an estimated $2.5 billion on hair care products in 2016 – nine times more than the general market.

9 Black-Owned Goodies for the Natural Hair Lovers in Your Life – Okay Africa

December 20, 2016December 21, 2016#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs ...

This is our seventh gift guide in the run-up to the holidays.

Curly-centric Hair Salon Teaches Dominican Women to Love Their Pajón

July 20, 2016Beauty, Caribbean ...

Miss Rizos uses African and African-American hairstyles to affirm blackness in straight-hair-obsessed country.

Black Hair is Finally Fashionable.

April 25, 2016October 18, 2019Culture

Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they are still too often measuring their beauty by the yardstick of whiteness