Natural Hair Wars: Coaxing the Generational Shift Toward Afros, Locs & Braids
Finally, my daughters and I can walk into my father's house happy to be me. finally, he's happy with our natural hair, too.
Blue Ivy’s Natural Hair & the Right Of Black Girls To Be… Free
Maybe Blue Ivy's mama isn't being lazy, but deliberate. Maybe Blue gets to be what Bey can't: FREE.
For White Mothers Who Don’t Know How To Style Their Black Children’s Natural Hair: I Feel You
This mom says she'll never look at that brown child with the white mom and make assumptions again.
A Black Boy’s Haircut Inspires Natural Hair Hate—And Encourages A Mom To Pen An Uplifting Book
By AMA KARIKARI No, I was not hallucinating at the time God gave me the story. I was a heart-broken mother struggling to teach her...
Angry Mom Launches Positive Natural Hair Project
By AYA de LEON I do not have time for racism this week. I’m a working mom, with a high maintenance marriage, I’m writing a...
White Mom, Black Daughter, Natural Hair: When Beautiful Means “Different.”
By Stacey Conner “Who does her hair?” she asks me gruffly. I look up from the table where I am trying to manage my four...
Locs of Love: Black Women Uplift Girl Barred From Tulsa School For Wearing Natural Hair
It was a simple call. Drexel University Professor Dr. Yaba Blay, an outspoken advocate who uses her platform to break down the binds of colorism...
Sheryl Underwood Calls Afro Hair ‘Nasty,’ Wonders Why Mothers Save Baby’s First Clippings
Snapping on “The Talk” co-host Sheryl Underwood’s Dollar Store doll baby wigs or her remarkably uncanny resemblance to Arsenio Hall’s drag queen character in that...
Natural Hair: A Teen Struggles To Rock Her Locs Proudly, Courageously
I went #teamnatural 13 years ago with a very specific intention: to show and prove to my daughter, Mari, that she should be proud of...
Blue Ivy’s Hair: Seriously, Folk—Leave Beyonce and Jay-Z’s Child All the Way Alone Already
Four MyBrownBaby words about Blue Ivy’s hair: Leave. That. Baby. Alone. I say this because after more than a year of everyone begging to see...
