Shout out to my former Detroit News' colleague, Donna Terek, for a wonderful Sunday column about natural hair in Detroit. I've had the pleasure to work with Donna in the past and she's one cool journalist.
Her piece was very thorough and well-researched with comments from local loctitians and natural hair stylists. She accurately captured the growth of natural hair in the Black community, profiling Naturally Flyy Detroit's natural hair meetup -- the brainchild of sisters Charise and Jennifer Thomas.
Our Culture and Natural Hair
Donna's is Caucasian, but she nailed it when it came to the cultural context of having natural hair -- the liberation we feel when wearing our natural hair; how wearing our hair naturally challenges straight hair is right ideology; why some women go natural; and how we scored a coup when Viola Davis rocked natural cropped hair at the Academy Awards.
Detroit is my hometown and is FIERCE in the hair world, so I'm always proud to show some love. I've copied the column below.
What do you think?
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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