When is praise not really praise? Here's a hint: When you're a white man reminiscing about the good old days, when black people wore Afros. Yeah...no.
black hair
curly hair
My hair is natural for the first time after 13 years of relaxing it. I am keenly aware that I’m the only one in my family full of women who wears her hair this way.
hair
Somehow a movement that began as a way to encourage black women to be free with their hair suddenly turned hostile to women doing just that.
black hair
Black beauty culture isn’t disappearing; it’s being revamped.
hair
Like image activist Michaela Angela Davis once told me, "Black hair is magic."
afro
It lowkey breaks my heart to say this, but I’m not convinced that America is ready for a First Lady who wears her hair in all of its unfettered natural, highly textured glory.
biracial
Being Jewish and African-American, or whatever my other half is, I was told that I have a mixed hair texture.
beauty
As fluffy and fun and fabulous as my hair might appear to be (and it is all of those things), I’m not a poodle.
hair
It's radical that wearing my hair the way it grows out of my head is radical.
