Harrison’s gorgeous illustrations show the versatility of Black women’s hair. Union was recently dropped as a judge on “America’s Got Challenge” amid criticism of her hairstyles being “too Black.”
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Writing young lovers into art history and more with artist Kennedi Carter | CRWN
When you peer through the deep reds of Kenndi Carter’s work, you’re not just squinting into a love story. Under the blood of her work you catch highlights almost golden to the touch , deep skin and shadow navigating as its own character. The subject: young lovers. Carter sometimes builds images featuring young lovers using […]
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Simplistic Beauty with Kenya Meon | CRWN
For this CRWN Muse, muted tones, grounding natural life and brown skin are the cornerstone of her work. Kenya Meon, a Macon, Georgia-born photography fell in love with photography for the freedom, and in 2010, moved to Atlanta to pursue the arts. Throughout the course of her timeline takeover she shared poetic captions celebrating the […]
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Dad and daughter need a little help in this super relatable clip from Matthew Cherry’s animated short “Hair Love” | AV Club
Shannon Miller, AV Club Image: Penguin Kids (YouTube). Featured Image [dropcap]Audiences[/dropcap] who plan on checking out The Angry Birds Movie 2 in theaters this weekend will also get to watch “Hair Love,” the animated short film by filmmaker Matthew Cherry and executive-produced by Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Frank Abney (Toy Story 4). […]
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Employers have no business policing black people’s natural hairstyles | Los Angeles Times
THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, Los Angeles Times [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] people have a fraught and painful history with hair. In particular, black women with textured, tightly curled or kinky hair have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money torturing it into straightness with chemicals and flat irons to fit a white standard of beauty that magazines have […]
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To Have Black Hair in America | Shoppe Black
Sixth grader Faith Fennidy was expelled on her first day of school for wearing braided extensions.
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Black Brazilians are ditching hair straighteners and white standards of beauty | The Washington Post
Black and brown Brazilians make up more than half of the country’s population, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the beauty industry.
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Lorna Simpson Maps the Complex Galaxies of Black Women’s Hair | The Atlantic
The artist’s new book of collages incorporates magazine clippings, watercolor, and geological formations.
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Black Hair’s Blockbuster Moment | The New York Times
Despite and perhaps because of a surge in white supremacist language in the United States, a wave of black cultural resistance is flooding the arts as well as the streets.
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Let Go of Our Hair and Let Our Girls Learn – The Root
In recent weeks, there have been a number of news stories about black girls being discriminated against at school for wearing natural hairstyles.
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