I Stopped Wearing Weaves And My Boss Told Me My Natural Hair Was “Unprofessional” Jessica Jacobs “ Anyone who has relaxed their hair knows that the first few days after you come out of the salon or the bathroom sink with your newly silky hair are magical. Then the new growth starts kicking in and its a lot of work to parse through the new growth and the hair that’s been relaxed.
In Defense Of North West And All Black Girls’ Beauty Angela Marie “ As far as I was concerned, she might as well have told me she hoped baby North didn’t look black, because blackness was ugly.
My Radical Self-Love Meant Cutting Off All My Hair Cameron Glover “ “You’re just gonna let her cut it all off and run around like a boy? What will her boyfriend think?”
My Emotional Journey To Getting Dreadlocks For The First Time Bert Ashe “ But as fate would have it, I briefly dated a Jamaican woman in Louisiana. And when I told her I was getting locks, she talked me out of it.
Freedom And Dreadlocks In New Orleans Bert Ashe “ The key difference, of course, is that I didn’t want to kill dreadlock-wearers, but I did pay heart-pounding, minute, stereoscopic attention to anyone, anywhere, that I saw wearing dreadlocks.
The People You Will (Probably) Meet At A (Black) Hair Salon Maya Richard-Craven “ MS. “LET ME TELL YOU HOW I WENT NATURAL”
21 Black Women Confess The Hair Struggles They’ve Never Told Anyone Kovie Biakolo “ You can be the most beautiful woman in the world, but without Beyoncé’s weave, you’re just beautiful for a black girl.
Watch What Happens When White People Touch Black Women’s Hair Madison Moore “ If you don’t understand all the fuss, think about what thing people could do that would make you feel violated.