JACKSON, Mich. — An eight-year-old Michigan girl finally got her chance to shine in front of the camera this week at a photo shoot lead by a Chicago photographer, WILX reports. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was a happy turn of events for Marian Scott after she was not allowed taking her school picture because her hair’s […]
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Employers have no business policing black people’s natural hairstyles | Los Angeles Times
THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, Los Angeles Times [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] people have a fraught and painful history with hair. In particular, black women with textured, tightly curled or kinky hair have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money torturing it into straightness with chemicals and flat irons to fit a white standard of beauty that magazines have […]
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Let Go of Our Hair and Let Our Girls Learn – The Root
In recent weeks, there have been a number of news stories about black girls being discriminated against at school for wearing natural hairstyles.
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9 Black-Owned Goodies for the Natural Hair Lovers in Your Life – Okay Africa
This is our seventh gift guide in the run-up to the holidays.
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Afropreneurs: This New At-Home Salon Service Amplifies the Gift of Having Black Hair
Antonia Opiah just wanted to get her hair done.
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Curly-centric Hair Salon Teaches Dominican Women to Love Their Pajón
Miss Rizos uses African and African-American hairstyles to affirm blackness in straight-hair-obsessed country.
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