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December 6, 2010
Colorful weaves? Check. Motorized hairpieces? Check. Fierce models? Check! The Root was there to capture all of the wild styles at this Sunday night's Golden Scissors Awards in Washington, D.C.
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November 30, 2010
Television's Syler, who showed her own "big chop" in a YouTube video, says, "I hope times are changing," with the public's reaction to natural hair on TV. Plus: Columnists see politics in "Dancing With The Stars."
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by Lauren Williams onNovember 11, 2010
A town protests a barber shop for refusing to cut black customer's hair.
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May 15, 2010
The Wall Street Journal story about Dominican hair salons driving blacks out of business is not new. We did it last year.
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by Lonnae O’Neal Parker onJanuary 29, 2010
By styling her daughters' hair each morning, she was attending to something deeper than a beauty ritual.
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by Natalie Hopkinson onDecember 4, 2009
The emerging Latino market is creating a demographic tsunami soaking black companies. Here’s why hair maven Glynn Jackson isn’t worried.
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by Natalie Hopkinson onDecember 4, 2009
The emerging Latino market is creating a demographic tsunami soaking black companies. Here’s why hair maven Glynn Jackson isn’t worried.
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October 8, 2009
Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” is funny, very funny, but all the jokes come at the expense of black women.
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July 31, 2009
This week on The Confab: Talking it out over a beer at the White House. Can a 'teachable moment' be the result of a fine brewski? Plus, why black women in America are having the worst week ever. Join The Root's Deputy Editor Terence Samuel as he talks with The Root's Assistant Editor Saaret E. Yoseph, senior culture writer Teresa Wiltz and contributor to The Root David Swerdlick.
* Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.
* Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.
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July 24, 2009
How one troubling YouTube video brought out the screaming little girl in all of us.
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