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A New Hair Social Order

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glam TWA, Katia by Dori Phelps So, first of all I want to state some givens. I’ve been black all my life. I don’t know what it is like to be anything else. My life experience consists of the fact that I have never been skinny: never very large but svelte is not a category I would fit in. Nor…

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Congress Demands U.S. Army Grooming Standards to Change

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source by Devri Velazquez On Tuesday, March 27th, 2014 we published an article titled Are the Proposed Army Changes Discriminatory to Women With Natural Hair?. This post outlined the new regulations the U.S. Army’s AR 670-1 created on natural hair.  Read On!>>> The Congressional Black Caucus recently penned a letter to Secretary Charles Hagel of the U.S. Department of Defense…

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Reclaiming the word “Nappy”

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PHOTO CREDIT: MARC BAPTISTE by Sabrina Perkins Nappy was never a word you wanted to hear or be associated with when I was growing up. I’m a part of Generation X, the latch-key kids, Atari players, the generation after the baby boomers. If you were born between 1965 and 1980, you are a part of Generation X. It’s safe to…

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