Like most good businesses, Loza Tam was created to meet a need. Founder Tomara Watkins started the business, which sells head wraps, turbans, and headbands, back in 2016 to solve her own hair issues. “I was in a Bikram yoga class, and I have a big kinky curly fro. I had on one of those little headbands […]
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Get Sick Or Starve: How A Deep Cleaner Is Surviving The Pandemic | HuffPost
“We are literally being put up against a wall and making a choice between life and death, between working and eating or not working and not eating.” Ezzie Dominguez estimates she gets around two hours of sleep every night. The 38-year-old wakes up each morning at 6 a.m. to head to her first job as […]
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Reuben Micou Lynched in Winston County, Mississippi | Equal Justice Initiative
On April 2, 1933, a mob of white men broke into the Winston County jail in Louisville, Mississippi to lynch a 65-year-old black man named Reuben Micou. Mr. Micou had been arrested after he was accused of getting into an altercation with a prominent local white man. By EJI Staff, Equal Justice InitiativeFeatured Image, Library of […]
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Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist and father to Wynton and Branford, dies aged 85 | The Guardian
New Orleans star, who was admitted to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms, saluted as ‘giant of a musician and even greater father’ Ellis Marsalis, the jazz pianist who fathered two of America’s most celebrated jazz performers in Wynton and Branford Marsalis, has died aged 85. He is suspected to have died from the Covid-19 virus, after […]
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This Maryland Salon Is Slaying Locs With These Haute Designs | Essence
Check out 21 ways Sherelle Holder and her team are innovating with the natural hairstyle. When it comes to styling locs and faux locs into some of the most creative and dynamic styles you’ve ever seen, no one’s doing it better than hairstylist Sherelle Holder. Her salon Karibbean Kinks in Prince Georges County Maryland (about 10 minutes away […]
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