Editorial: Bias and black people's hair
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Apr 01, 2019
3 minutes
Black people have a fraught and painful history with hair. In particular, black women with textured, tightly curled or kinky hair have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money torturing it into straightness with chemicals and flat irons to fit a white standard of beauty that magazines have told them to aspire to and employers have told them to comply with. But when both black men and women have opted to
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