Cornrows, braids, Bantu knots, Afros, bald heads, and sisterlocks: Black hair and the CROWN Act

“It was not just our hairstyles that had evolved. We had evolved. We, as in Black women, as in me. Here, I write a modern-day Black hair story that is not about Will, Chris, or Jada. But it is about Black women remembering our roots, when braids told tribal truths, and bald heads on little girls was deliberate.”

Kim Green writes about what it means to be a Black woman and move through the world with so much attention paid to one physical feature: hair. It’s a reality for countless Black women, but Green reminds Black women to have great pride in their hair.

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This story was originally published June 13, 2022 at 9:00 AM.