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Black History Month Expo on The History of Black Hair

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Josephine Baker under pressure to conform
  • boxer braids are corn rolls
  • Cultural Appropriation of the Afro
  • White Girl Dreads
  • Micheal Jackson wore an Afro
  • Celebrity Dread Locks

  Black hair has been an indispensable element of Black history – from African tribal styles to dreadlocks and the Afro. This month BlackHairStyle.com investigates a good many of the key black hair styles. In early African civic establishments, haircuts could show a man’s family foundation, tribe and societal position or status. “Pretty much everything […]

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