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Will Black Salons Survive the Recession?
For many black women, a trip to the salon is more than just pampering. A missed appointment can add hours to a black woman’s week—pulling through tangles and wrestling with blow-dryers and flatirons. More than the tiresome manual labor, missing a regular spot means missing the black salon experience: the enclave of warmth, comfort and…
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Kumbaya?
“Are all of your friends white?” That was not the response I’d expected after telling a member of my study abroad program that I’d graduated from a PWI: Predominantly White Institution. She looked at me as though I’d attended school on Mars instead of at my racially-diverse state university, located a mere eight miles away…
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Growing Into My Big-Girl Clothes
It took almost one year, hundreds of gallons in gas and several mall madness Saturdays, but I finally got it. “It” wasn’t just another low-cut shirt with a ring of elastic around the bust line. And it surely wasn’t another pair of too-tight jeans that required an inhale-exhale exercise to wiggle into. It was a…
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