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In I-am-sad-to-even-have-to-write-about-this-today reporting, a Kenyan blogger wrote a post about how natural hair is ugly.

An eighth-grader was reduced to tears and utter embarrassment last week when she was sent to the principal's office for simply wearing her natural hair.

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Woodlands Elite Cheer removed 11-year-old Makayla Fallaw from their roster for refusing to straighten her hair.

This is how you do cornrows the right way. Paris Fashion Week is under way, and Zendaya came to shut it down. The 19-year-old has been spotted out and about for the festivities and she’s bringing a variety of flawless looks and hairstyles along with her, including her famous cornrows, which she rocked to the front […]

Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole made two of the most politically charged rap albums of 2015 and 2014, and both let their natural hair flourish.

https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/627918948860755969 In this week’s news of cringe-worthy cultural appropriation: Allure magazine ran the article “You (Yes, You) Can Have An Afro” in its August issue. The hair tutorial features a White woman with an afro (Rachel Dolezal-style), as demonstrated in this BuzzFeed article. Per BuzzFeed: Not only did the magazine choose to not use a black model […]

It just doesn’t get any cuter than North West. Today, KimYe’s first-born celebrates her second birthday and in her two short years, she’s given us more “AWWW”-worthy moments than we can count. Not to mention, she’s more stylish than most adults and can rock a slick hairdo better than us too. Although Kim Kardashian loves to control […]

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Viola Davis’ performance on the critically acclaimed ABC drama How To Get Away With Murder won over fans, especially after the powerful scene featuring her character Annalise taking off her makeup and wig in the show’s fourth episode. In a conversation with Academy voters at the For Your Consideration panel last weekend, Davis says she wouldn’t […]

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Frustrated by an inability to find a doll that highlighted her three daughters’ beautiful African-American features, Angelica Sweeting created one of her own. Sweeting, 27, of Miami, Florida, created the Angelica Doll after realizing that her oldest daughter Sophia was unhappy with her kinks and curls because of the straight-haired White dolls she played with […]