Get Twisted and Braided in Harlem 

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The numbers don’t lie: 71 percent of black Americans wore a natural hairstyle at least once in 2016. To find out more about protective styles and the amazing practitioners behind them, I took a journey up to…

The numbers don’t lie: 71 percent of black Americans wore a natural hairstyle at least once in 2016. To find out more about protective styles and the amazing practitioners behind them, I took a journey up to 125th Street in Harlem, the international mecca for the natural-hair movement that’s taking black Americans of all ages back to their roots. Come on! Let’s go get twisted!

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