Breathtaking Photos Of Black Women Rocking Their Natural Hair Reminds Us How Far We’ve Come

Black Activists Knew Hair Mattered

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Following WW2, activists begin to see emancipating black hair standards as a road to emancipating African Americans. Everyone from Malcolm X to the Black Panthers saw natural hair as liberating.

They urged women to reclaim their natural hair as a way of reclaiming their African culture.