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Cardi B Calls Onion Juice the Secret to Her Luscious Locks
The rapper says onion juice is responsible for her long shiny hair. But should we all be running out to buy a bag?
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Get Twisted and Braided in Harlem
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…
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In ‘It’s About Damn Time’ News, the Army Approves Locks as a Hairstyle for Black Women
Black women serving in the United States Army will now, finally, be able to wear their hair in locks (also known as dreadlocks) and twists, after an exhausting and what many believe, unfair fight over many years. Couched in new regulations focused on grooming policy changes related to religious accommodations, the largest branch of the…