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Afro

Solange Knowles attends amfAR Milano 2012 during Milan Fashion Week at La Permanente on September 22, 2012 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Solange's Afro gets a TSA pat down

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Solange Knowles takes to Twitter after TSA patted her afro down in a Miami airport Wednesday...
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Hairstory: When the black co-worker throws shade at your fro

Christian McKenzie
ESSAY - Maybe more people in the generation after me will embrace and encourage natural hair...
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Teen sentenced for stabbing girl with 'Afro comb'

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - A 16-year-old girl is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of murdering her teenage rival with a steel Afro comb...
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Afro-styled dish sponges deemed racist

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The company Paladone has issued dish washing sponges shaped to look like African-Americans with Afro hairstyles...
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World's largest afro attracts attention

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Aevin Dugas sports the world's largest natural afro. Her hair was blessed as the biggest by Guinness World Records...
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TSA searches Dallas woman's hair for weapons

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VIDEO - Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she went through security...
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Return of 'Baby Doc' has Haiti on edge

Garry Pierre-Pierre
OPINION - The brain drain that has ruined Haiti was a Duvalier legacy, one whose destructive impact will last more than a generation...
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Beauty schools ignore natural hair at their own peril

Clutch Magazine
OPINION - I attended a black hair school to get extra certification hours, and natural hair was only taught in the context of pressing it....
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