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Black Hair

It’s World Afro Day And Australia Is Celebrating. Here’s How To Support It.

Recording artist JamarzOnMarz has launched #ProtectBlackStudents to end race disparities in schools.
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Forcing Black Students To Shave Their Natural Afro Hair Is Dehumanising. I Should Know.

Australian private schools still enforce uniform policies that make it hard to be Black. I want legal reform to have them abolished.
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'Hair Love' Director Matthew A. Cherry Calls For Normalising Black Hair In Oscars Speech

The filmmaker gave a shoutout to DeAndre Arnold, a high school senior who notably refused to cut his locs in order to walk at his upcoming graduation.
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When Non-Black Minorities Wear Cornrows And Locs, Is It Appropriation?

The answer is simple.
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