Afro

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Mel B, theGrio.com
September 11, 2024
Dozens of Black Britons are calling for the U.K. to introduce a law to recognize Afro hair as a protected…
February 1, 2022
The high-end retailer Saks comes under fire on social media for hawking a small, brass Afro pick online as an…
September 23, 2019
Promise Sawyers, a 10-year-old girl who wore a big afro to school was made fun of by classmates decided to…
February 22, 2016
When students at the C.R. Walker Senior High School in the Bahamas tried to wear their natural hair to school, they
August 4, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Allure Magazine has seen better days. A spread in the magazine's August issue on afros screamed cultural…
March 24, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - New York City mayor Bill de Blasio poked fun at himself Saturday night with the help of…
November 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - An African-American girl could face expulsion from her high school after school officials said her natural hairstyle…
November 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Dante de Blasio and Malia Obama were named to Time magazine's list of most influential teens Tuesday.
September 26, 2013
NBC News - President Barack Obama praised the teenage son of Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio for his notorious…
September 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The fascinating display charts the inception of the comb in Ancient Egypt through to its ascendancy as…
September 12, 2013
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - Dante de Blasio, the teenage son of likely Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio,…
August 6, 2013
"Just revealed this new cover of O, The Oprah Magazine -- one of my faves ever," Winfrey announced on her…
June 26, 2013
In the wake of an outcry over an Ohio charter school's attempt to ban "afro-puffs and small twisted braids," the…
November 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Solange Knowles takes to Twitter after TSA patted her afro down in a Miami airport Wednesday...
November 1, 2012
ESSAY - Maybe more people in the generation after me will embrace and encourage natural hair...
August 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A 16-year-old girl is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of murdering her teenage rival…
April 27, 2012
The company Paladone has issued dish washing sponges shaped to look like African-Americans with Afro hairstyles...
September 23, 2011
Aevin Dugas sports the world's largest natural afro. Her hair was blessed as the biggest by Guinness World Records...
September 21, 2011
VIDEO - Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she…
January 18, 2011
OPINION - The brain drain that has ruined Haiti was a Duvalier legacy, one whose destructive impact will last more…