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by Demetria L. Lucas onFebruary 28, 2013
Responding in a piece for Clutch magazine to recent headlines highlighting disrespect toward black women, The Root's contributing editor Demetria L. Lucas offers some remedial guidelines for potential line crossers.
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by Shannon Washington onSeptember 27, 2012
Shannon Washington laments at Parlour magazine that her blowout -- which is all about versatility, not European beauty standards -- seems to have earned her a citation from the "natural-hair police."
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by Demetria L. Lucas onSeptember 20, 2012
Ask Demetria: Your look is fine; it's your dating approach that may need a relaxer.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJuly 27, 2012
News anchor Frank Somerville's photo of himself taking out his daughter's braids inspired a huge response. "To me the picture shows a dad doing what a dad should do, and loving every minute of it," he says.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMay 1, 2012
This celebrity trainer says that black people need to put health before image and hair.
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by Kaneisha Grayson onApril 28, 2012
Writing for Clutch magazine, Kaneisha Grayson confesses that, nine years after giving up on having hair like Aaliyah's, she's still not that passionate about the natural "revolution."
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by Dantel Proctor onMarch 30, 2012
Writing at MadameNoire, Dantel Proctor says she's happy that natural hair is celebrated, but she wouldn't mind a little support for her own, different, choice.
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by Thembi Ford onMarch 27, 2012
Thembi Ford writes at Clutch magazine that she's tired of strangers who find her hair exotic and think it's OK to treat her "like a stuffed animal."
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onDecember 22, 2011
In today's link roundup: Research says that more black women went natural this year. Plus: Roots 35 Years Later to air on OWN.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onOctober 10, 2011
When a club promoter favors natural-haired women, do we all pay the price?
