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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  8/17/2022
  

  Acceptance of Natural Hairstyles a Continuing Front in Civil Rights Struggle

  by Jasmine Nichole Cobb

  Recently signed legislation in Massachusetts prohibits workplaces and schools from banning many hairstyles associated with African Americans, showing that racism can work through sartorial standards to make opportunity and acceptance contingent on conformity to white norms. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/23/2021
  

  For Many, an Afro isn’t Just a Hairstyle

  Journalist Ernie Suggs reflects on how hairstyles reflected his own family's history, with backing from historians Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Noliwe Rooks. 

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• 3-13-16
  

  Everything Has a History Including Wigs

  by Kurt Stenn

  The desire to achieve a particular cosmetic look binds Lady Gaga to the Egyptian pharaohs, even though they seem worlds apart.