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The Crowns We Never Take Off

The Politics of Black Hair: A Hair-Story Told Through Pictures

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African Hair

19th Century Mende Women

Still from the Movie "Roots"

Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 8.01.50 PM_edited

Runaway Slave Ad

Bacon Grease

Madam CJ Walker

Conforming to Whiteness

Assata Shakur

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Salt N Peppa

Brandy: A Hair Influencer of the 90s

Black Women in Hollywood

A Return to Natural

Teyonah Parris with an Updo

Angela Davis in the 1990s

Jayla Rhodes

A Black Barbershop in 1950s

A Black Barbershop in 2018

African Hair

19th Century Mende Women

Still from the Movie "Roots"

Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 8.01.50 PM_edited

Runaway Slave Ad

Bacon Grease

Madam CJ Walker

Conforming to Whiteness

Assata Shakur

9b363ba603a42e7c689c50db95c6b5f2-1

Salt N Peppa

Brandy: A Hair Influencer of the 90s

Black Women in Hollywood

A Return to Natural

Teyonah Parris with an Updo

Angela Davis in the 1990s

Jayla Rhodes

A Black Barbershop in 1950s

A Black Barbershop in 2018

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