Posts Categorized: curly hair

Hindsight is everything: What I would tell my 16-year-old self

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Last week, a video produced by actress Amandla Stenberg grabbed much of the interwebs attention and launched a thousand think pieces about cultural appropriation. This 16-year-old artist put out a video on her Instagram that I believe was part of a school project entitled, “Don’t Cash Crop my Cornrows” where she covered a wide spectrum of actions… Read more »

The Origin of “Cool” and its role in Black History

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I recently caught a news report about a new exhibit at the Smithsonian museum which attempts to encapsulate what it means to be cool. I stopped getting prepared for my work day to listen to what the curators of the exhibit had concluded who and what to be cool in our society. Entitled “American Cool”, the… Read more »