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Roots Of Change: Puerto Rican Mothers Embrace Natural Hair To Combat

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Post date August 21, 2024

Flor-Angel Guilbe Stevens sings bomba alongside the group Aché de Bomba y Plena at El Imán Bar & Restaurant in Loíza, Puerto Rico. Bomba cultural traditions help create an Afro-Puerto Rican community and affirm Guilbe’s identity. Gabriela Meléndez Rivera/GPJ

In some school and work environments, hairstyles associated with blackness, such as dreadlocks, are still prohibited. One family is embracing a radical change in attitude.

Tags afro hairstyle, afro-caribbean, afro-descendant, ancestral representation, blackness, braids, cultural expressions, dreadlocks, hair, hairstyle, identity, natural hair, racial discrimination, racial identity, society

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Dude, Where’s My Dreads? South Africa’s Odd Spate Of Dreadlock Theft

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Post date January 29, 2013

I’ve been dreadknapped!? And they didn’t even take my wallet.

Tags dreadlocks, dreads, hair, johannesburg, south africa

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