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Afro-Latina Actress Leslie Grace Has Been Cast as Batgirl, White Fanboys Are Comically Mad
The In The Heights breakout co-star will portray Barbara Gordon for the upcoming HBO Max project.
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Black Alabama Teen Raises $38,000 for Children With Cancer by Cutting 19-Inch Afro
Imagine being 17 years old and possessing the ingenuity and selflessness to even think of something like tuning your hair into help for others.
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The Hair Tales: Tracee Ellis Ross and Oprah Winfrey Join Bestselling Author Michaela Angela Davis to Present a Series Celebrating Black Hair
The docuseries will simultaneously broadcast on OWN and Hulu as part of ‘an unprecedented partnership.’
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Can We Talk About Amara La Negra’s Appearance on The Breakfast Club?
The Love & Hip Hop franchise has a new Afro-Latina on its roster: Amara La Negra. And the buxom, gray-eyed, Afro-rocking, melanin-poppin’ recording artist is making major waves online, mostly because of the criticism surrounding her dark skin and kinky hair. Before you check your calendar, yes, I can confirm that it is indeed 2018…
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Police Union Is Big Mad After Colin Kaepernick and His Protest Afro Visited Rikers Island Prisoners
I pray that when my infant son is old enough to attend college, there are courses devoted to the historical lineage inside Colin Kaepernick’s Afro. In the history of Afros, Kaepernick’s falls somewhere between Angela Davis and all of the men from the grossly underrated family soul group the Sylvers. On Tuesday, Kaepernick and his…
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Wait, Were Mike Vick’s Comments About Colin Kaepernick’s Afro All for a TV Show?
So, last month Michael Vick fell into the sunken place after he took his black ass on Fox’s FS1 and made all kinds of respectability-politics comments about Colin Kaepernick’s gloriously fluffy Afro. Vick was immediately uninvited to the national black cookout, but now it looks as if all of his comments served as perfect fodder…
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You Can’t Touch Solange’s Hair, but You Can Ask to Touch Mine
If you have been natural for any length of time, you have more than likely had someone attempt to touch your hair. Strangers and friends of various races and ages seem to be intrigued by the texture, feel and all-around unexpectedness of black hair. Oftentimes this intrigue is expressed through a stray hand inching its…
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Black South African Girls Protest Racist Hair Policies
Several students protested outside Pretoria Girls High School in South Africa on Monday, accusing officials of discriminating against black girls at the school and encouraging racist hair policies, prompting a response from the local education chief, BuzzFeed reports. According to the report, a petition began to circulate calling on Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education…