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Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love Is Now Online and I’m About to Use My Tears to Moisturize My Hair, BRB

One of my fondest memories of grandma involves sitting betwixt her fair-skinned and veiny legs as she slathered Royal Crown grease over my thick follicles. She’d braid (or more accurately, plait) my soft tendrils into two or three ponytails and wrap each one into what I just learned is technically called a “hair bobble.” I…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

December 5, 2019
Entertainment, Movies

Watch: The Hair Struggle Without Mom Is Real in This Clip From Matthew Cherry's Hair Love

Oh, dads. A black girl’s relationship with her hair is special. As is her relationship with her dad. Put those two things together and shenanigans can follow. Luckily (for my tiny ego), my dad had his mother around to take over my hair duties. Really, I legit grew up in the same apartment building with…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

August 14, 2019
Culture

Watch: The Power of Representation With Matthew A. Cherry, the Creator of ‘Hair Love’

Representation matters. We know this and still, representation is missing from the media we consume. For Matthew A. Cherry, seeing other black directors in action assured him that filmmaking was an attainable goal after he transitioned from the NFL. Now Cherry is making it his mission to normalize natural hair and black fatherhood in the…

By

Ashley Velez

Published

July 21, 2017