Ladies I am TOO excited to tell you about this event! Please see the official trailer for "Kickin' It With The Kinks" and the press release below! I am honored to be among the panelists for this event - join us and spread the word! “KICKIN’ IT WITH THE KINKS” NYC Premiere Screening of UK Documentary Nu Ade Enterprises in collaboration with … [Read more...]
Hair Typing: Don’t be a Prisoner to the Categories (Video)
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Remember Naturals: Hair Typing is just a system to better understand your hair. Don't be a prisoner to it! (Video is a little choppy - but you get the picture! ;-) … [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...]
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...]
Hampton Hair Policy – Meet the Doll Test
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A few years ago, the business school at Hampton University, one of our nation’s top historically Black universities, implemented a policy that banned natural hairstyles for its male students. The university declared ‘braids, dreadlocks and other unusual hairstyles are not acceptable’ for majors in their five-year master's of business administration program.” At the time, … [Read more...]