The subject of natural hair is in the spotlight once again. Though I go easy on social media on weekends I did take note of the controversy that erupted on Twitter over comedienne Sheryl Underwood’s deprecating comments regarding natural hair. I wasn’t shocked to hear of yet another Black celebrity treating one of the characteristics […]
Read More“WOW…this is all…me”, I said as I stared at my reflection in the mirror. I beheld something that I had not seen since I was seven years old: myself with a full head of natural hair. It was October 1996, the beginning of my junior year in high school. Tisha had continued to press her […]
Read More*A note before we continue: the attached picture is a real ad from the 1940s. Sadly the message contained in it was still being conveyed when I was a teen, as we’ll see in this post. “So D, when are you going to stop relaxing your hair?” Here we go again, I said to myself. […]
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