World Afro Day: “Embracing Our Natural Roots”

World Afro Day: “Embracing Our Natural Roots”

Today (15th September) is being celebrated as World Afro Day. It is an essential call to action for leaders, schools, churches and each individual to finally end discrimination against Afro hair in schools across the country. “We have outgrown slavery, but our minds...
Embracing Our Natural Roots

Embracing Our Natural Roots

Within a cultural context, we are taught that good hair means curly, wave, and soft while ‘bad hair’ means the opposite and one is not pretty enough. As a result of this, a lot of people reject or find it extremely difficult to embrace their natural roots...