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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJuly 25, 2011
From salon owners to Awkward Black Girl herself, women who wear their hair natural say they deal with the curious hands of strangers.
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by Hayat Mohamed onApril 20, 2011
Today on Like This: A mailman gets caught leaving behind something unpleasant, four people are struck in a McDonald's parking lot, and a biracial girl's hair dilemma.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onDecember 6, 2010
Bringing the beautiful, the brave and the absurd, "Hair GaGa 2010" reclaimed the fun side of black hair.
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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 Teresa Wiltz onOctober 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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