By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ELGIN, S.C. (AP) — With South Carolina’s first coronavirus hot spot just a short jaunt up the highway, Johellen Lee hadn’t been out for anything but groceries for nearly a month. “I looked like a hag,” she said. So she headed to see her best friend and hair stylist Erica […]
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Black Mompreneur Creates Online Hair School
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — These days, being able to work from home is an asset. With the current global events, it is crucial that individuals and businesses adopt alternative and innovative ways to provide services, reach their clients, spread their messages, learn and earn income. For this reason, licensed social worker and entrepreneur Jessyca Marshall has […]
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CROWN Act Closer to Passing in Three States
By Black Health Matters It’s always great when art imitates life, but it’s even better when life can take its cues from art. Whether it’s a coincidence or not, since Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver’s “Hair Love” won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short, three more states have either passed their own […]
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BWI Marshall Airport and Fraport Maryland Welcome New Pop-Up Shops
For Immediate Release Contact: Jonathan Dean February 27, 2020 […]
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‘Hair Love’
By Ronda Racha Penrice Urban News Service Matthew A. Cherry’s “Hair Love” Oscar win for Best Animated Short Film on Feb. 9 was a victory for natural hair. Cherry’s film features a young father who, in his wife’s absence, does their daughter’s hair for the very first time. The young dad wears his own hair […]
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Texas Lawmakers are Drafting a Hair Discrimination Bill
The Associated Press The Texas Legislative Black Caucus has announced it’s working on a bill that would ban discrimination based on hair textures and styles commonly associated with race following the suspension of a Black high school student near Houston. State lawmakers, accompanied by Black officials and advocates, introduced the CROWN Act at a press […]
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Texas High School Bars Student Who Won’t Cut Dreadlocks
By The Associated Press A Black Texas high school student won’t be allowed to return to school or attend his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks, his family says. Deandre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu in Southeast Texas, has had dreadlocks for years and says it’s part of […]
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Goes Public With Alopecia and Baldness
By LEANNE ITALIE, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. Ayanna Pressley, whose hair twists have been an inspiration to young girls and part of her personal identity and political brand, said Thursday that she has gone bald due to the auto immune condition alopecia. The freshman Massachusetts Democrat made a touching video for […]
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Black Business Spotlight: Nail Entrepreneur Encourages Empowerment
By Micha Green D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com For many African American women, going to the nail salon is a form of self-care and their nail art is a mode of artistic freedom and expression. Yet, according to a 2018 study from UCLA, only two percent of the nail industry is made of Black professionals. As many […]
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Salon Owner Looks to Help White Parents With Black Hair Care
By SAFIYA CHARLES, Montgomery Advertiser MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Some of the most distinct memories that Black women recall of their childhood involve hair. Many can remember sitting between their mother’s, aunt’s and grandmother’s legs, determined fingers working to nourish their scalp and the teeth of a comb edging through their hair. If you sat […]
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Actresses Cite Lack of Hollywood Stylists who get Black Hair
By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tiffany Haddish recalls leaving the set of a big-budget movie in tears in search of someone who could properly do her hair. Lorraine Toussaint blithely recounts the times her tresses have been damaged by stylists inexperienced with managing Black hair. And Tia Mowry-Hardrict recalls breaking […]
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The New Era of Natural Hair
By Camille Davis Over the past decade, Black women have begun embracing their natural hair, but caring for it can still be time-consuming and frustrating. Many Black women know all too well the feeling of dread that accompanies the hours-long process of conditioning, detangling, and styling. Local hair-enthusiast-turned-tech-pioneer, Dawn Myers recalls being one of those […]