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When Beyonce performs she always speaks of her on stage character Sasha. The same must be true for Lavell Crump aka David Banner. While on interviews, or giving back to the community his insight is educated and interesting, yet his rap songs are so…. typical. He mentions his fight to include more dark skin girls in his videos, but explains he can’t have it all. They can’t be dark skin AND have natural hair. That will be too much for the mainstream to handle. All facets of beauty should be represented in the media, but do we really want Queens of the Nubian bent over shakin their ass in rap videos?
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The hair-extensions industry has made it easy to get lush tresses. Answering the moral questions it raises is more complicated.
By Katherine Zoepf of Allure
There’s just no way around it—the bald women are alarming-looking. In this small city in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, they’re also everywhere… Read More
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As I was reading this article, Around Greensboro: African Pride Hair Care by a Black University I grew angry.
Advertising Campaign:
African Pride Supports relaxers and texturizers – products we do not support on this site. In addition to these products that do the opposite of promoting African Pride they run add campaigns similar to Dr. Miricle. African Pride shares a national media image that Black hair is broken, and needs to be fixed by using their products.
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Secrets of healthy hair
Maintain a beautiful mane with these helpful hair-maintenance tips
By Nike Sotade
WITH many women sporting weave-ons, wigs… read more
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Barber Markius Freeman, 30, has been growing his dreads for 4 years and he’s not about to cut them.
“Cutting them would be like cutting yourself short,” he said. “It would be like a sacrifice. It would have to be very, very, important to me, like a job.”
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