One of the first dilemmas that Black people face is whether to let strangers touch their hair – and under what circumstances. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
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With a heavy contingency from Philadelphia, Black leaders and state legislators rallied Tuesday in Harrisburg, pushing the state Senate to pass the CROWN Act...
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Imani Jackson faced unjust termination after wearing her natural hair at work, refusing to conform to Eurocentric beauty standards imposed by her...
A Black girl in New Jersey was allegedly prohibited from playing in a high school basketball game because of her hairstyle, the Gothamist reports.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The civil rights trial of three White plainclothes city police officers accused of wrongly arresting and beating a young Black man...
by Michaela Angela Davis (CNN) -- Hair in the Black community is like a religion, resplendent with ritual, devotion, mythology, metaphor, plenty of pomp and circumstance. Black hair arguably is one of the quickest indicators of ethnicity, ethos and sometimes, politics. This past week, two very different children found their very different "ethnic" hairstyles in the spotlight on two very different political stages.
