"You got good hair." "She's pretty for a "dark" girl." "She's "light" skin but she has "bad" hair." "Girl you need to perm that "bad" hair of yours." No matter where you are on the color line and no matter what your texture of hair, these are phrases that many Black girls are familiar with. Many of us grow up wishing we had lighter brown skin - often times … [Read more...]
Why an Afro State of Mind
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Hey folks! So I've been getting a lot of questions about why I started this project and what motivated me to take on this topic. If you're familiar with the natural hair movement, then you know that many natural blogs tend to focus a lot on styling and hair care tips (and I thank God that they do because I learn a lot from them!). But this blog/project tends to focus more … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Jheri Curl Junkie (in recovery…)
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My name is Lurie Daniel Favors and I am a former Jheri Curl addict. I say former because by the grace of God I was able to work that particular fix out of my system. But man, was it a process. When the Jheri curl came out I was young and impressionable – I think around 8 or 9. So by that time, like most Black girls, I’d been subjected to nearly a decade of images that said … [Read more...]
Professional Naturals Project
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Daring to Wear Natural Hair (gasp!) in the Workplace A few weeks ago, I posted an article about some of the challenges that Black women face when they wear ethnically Black hair in the work place. I have a LOT of stories about my days as a natural head in corporate America, so as you can probably tell, writing that piece was a bit cathartic! But I realized one of the key … [Read more...]
Nappy Professional Negroes Need Not Apply
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“So…what do you think about natural hair?” the moderator asked. The audience full of female lawyers of color grew quiet as we waited for the panel’s response. It was a loaded question. This was a forum on business development for female attorneys. The room was packed with melanated (by “melanated” I mean people with melanin) women, many of whom were Black. Many of whom … [Read more...]