politics and natural hair

Sep 21

Black Hair Joy in 2025 : Embracing Our Beauty and Power

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki, Natural Hair, Wellness and Beauty No Comments

Black Hair Joy in 2025 : Embracing Our Beauty and Power Why Our Hair Still Leads the Culture by Danielle Cox for CurlyNikki.com If you judge me because of my wondrous hair, if you are critical of the way my hair naturally grows from my glorious scalp, you are critical of God. And that's a YOU problem. Some mornings, you…

Sep 21

My Sister’s Keeper – Hair Relaxers Linked to Cancer – Black Women Fight Back

By Nikki Walton Curly Nikki No Comments

Hair Relaxers Linked to Cancer – Black Women Fight Back by April Preyar I was 25 years old when I did the “Big Chop.” As my silky, jet-black, shoulder-length hair fell away and drifted down to the salon floor, tiny curls sprung up in their place. For the first time in my life, I felt free! The crushing weight of…

Sep 21

Why Are So Many Schools Discriminating Against Natural Hair?

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki No Comments

IMAGE BY ISTOCK/SAM74100 by Marsha B. A child’s foundation begins at home, and is further developed in the school system. In the household, children learn core values, manners, self-worth, and much more. School can either reinforce those values, or tear them down. Over the years, the education system has done our kids a disservice by implying that their natural hair…

Sep 21

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…

Sep 21

Texas Court Rules in Favor of Hair Braider Isis Brantley

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by Janelle Sands This natural hair movement has taken off so rapidly that we forget how it even got started. As bloggers take the spotlight, accompanying us through our personal hair care lessons together, we can now stop briefly to appreciate one of the pioneers of this movement. Isis Brantley was one of the first women to notice the need…