Black men, women and children are celebrating their right to embrace their natural hair for the first annual CROWN Day on Friday, honoring the anniversary of the inaugural signing of the CROWN Act in ...
Kay Porter chemically straightened her hair in 1970 after racial segregation ended at Dwight Rich Middle School and busing started in Lansing. Porter was starting seventh grade and worried about how ...
In January 2020, California’s CROWN Act—CROWN being an acronym for “Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair”—went into effect. The law, which was championed by a Black female ...
WASHINGTON (7News) — It’s painted on a pink background on the side of the Bus Boys and Poets Restaurant in Anacostia: The Crown Act. MuralsDC’s newest mural displays of images of Black women wearing ...
From the larger-than-life Afros of the 1970s to the finger waves and French rolls of the 1990s, Black natural hair movements ...
A collage of portraits at the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden (clockwise from top left) includes Brewer, Usigbe, Usim, Starks, Wheeler and Jones. (Grace Wilson/Daily Bruin) Growing up as a ...
Three of Opoku-Acheampong’s friends are the subjects of “Textures,” and they reveal tiresome parts of their hair-care routines that most Black women endure behind closed doors. The camera meets Taylor ...
Every Black woman has a unique relationship with her hair. I was like a lot of my peers in the early 2000s who grew up going to the beauty salon with our moms to get a relaxer and a roller set so we ...
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