The Win Like many of you I was thrilled when I saw Tamron Hall, the first Black woman to co-anchor the Today Show, make her natural hair debut on the air. #BlackTwitter collectively lost its mind as we ooh’d and ahh’d over Hall’s natural hairstyle. Even White folks got on board and supported her curly girl look. The Today show took the nerve-wrenching step of polling … [Read more...]
Professional Naturals Project: Leona Torres
Welcome to this week's edition of the Professional Naturals Project! The goal of this project is to: 1. Promote the beautiful diversity of professional natural hairstyles, 2. Create an image gallery so that other naturals can get ideas of how they can wear their hair in the work place, 3. Provide encouragement for women who desire to be their naturally beautiful … [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...]