In my dreams, I wish “Good Hair” would create a discussion so revolutionary that black women across America would be so confident of their beauty they wouldn’t crave weaves or “creamy crack.”
Archive for October, 2009
Untangling “Good Hair”
Posted in Hair History, tagged A'Lelia Bundles, Ada Babino, Angela de Joseph, black hair care, black women, Chris Rock, Duncan Shepherd, Good Hair, Jezebel.com, natural hair, Nicole Moore, Rebecca Fortune, Regina Kimball on October 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Hair Links
Posted in Hair History, tagged black hair care, Chris Rock, Good Hair, Hair History, Nicole Moore, Thehotness.com on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a woman who survived the Hair Wars of the 1960s when large numbers of black girls and women abandoned hot combs and hair straighteners for natural hair, and as hair care pioneer Madam C. J. Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and biographer, I often find myself at a unique vantage point from which to observe today’s ongoing hair skirmishes.
Small World on Another Continent
Posted in On the road, tagged Israeli Presidential Conference, Jerusalem, Skype on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A’Lelia Bundles Back in my cocoon ready to write another chapter of Joy Goddess, my new Harlem Renaissance era biography of A’Lelia Walker, after being in Jerusalem for the second annual Israeli Presidential Conference. When I received the invitation some months ago, I was at a loss trying to figure out how my stories of [...]
