Hair Love

A judge has ruled in favor of two teenagers after their school instituted a policy that meant they would have to cut their long dreadlocks.
/ August 19, 2020
Hair Love thegrio.com
Matthew Cherry, the director of the Academy Award-winning animated short, Hair Love, has signed a first-look with Warner Bro’s Television Group.
/ June 18, 2020
Hair Love director Matthew Cherry has started a viral social media campaign to let a child who called herself ugly know just how beautiful she actually is
/ March 9, 2020
Matthew Cherry
Hair Love, the beautiful story about a Black father learning to fix his daughter’s natural hair, nabbed the Oscar for Best Animated Short.
/ February 10, 2020
Matthew A. Cherry
Chek out the full list of winners from the 2020 Oscars including Matthew A. Cherry and ‘American Factory’ produced by The Obamas.
/ February 9, 2020
Cynthia Erivo
Check out a few of our favorite looks from stars like Regina King, Cynthia Erivo, Billy Porter, and Janelle Monae at the Oscars
/ February 9, 2020
Deandre Arnold thegrio.com
Celebrity couple Gabrielle Union and former Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade invited DeAndre Arnold, a Houston-area teen whose high school officials told him he wouldn’t graduate if he did not cut his dreadlocks, to the Oscars.
/ February 2, 2020
This week Black Twitter found itself giving the Academy the side-eye as the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards were announced and it quickly became clear that barely anybody Black had made the cut. But in that sea of alabaster there appeared one beautifully melanated spark of hope thanks to Matthew A. Cherry.
/ January 13, 2020
Cynthia Erivo
Check out the complete list of contenders for the 2020 Academy Awards and see why it ooks like another year of #OscarsSoWhite.
/ January 13, 2020
Hair Love thegrio.com
Former NFL wide receiver turned writer and film director brought his hit children’s book to life a now we are wondering what life was like before!
/ December 6, 2019
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
Filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry focuses connection between Black fathers and their daughters, and what it means to show love to our hair.
/ August 7, 2017