TV and Black Girl Rising, Inc. convened a roundtable of Black women to discuss the complex relationship between hair, culture ...

We asked Black and White women and men to evaluate ... uses their normal African American Vernacular English, and wears their hair in its natural, textured state. We compared reactions to these ...

"Black adolescent girls, significantly beyond their white peers and their Latina peers, were more likely to experience hair-related discrimination and hair-related dissatisfied," says Lisse.

"It’s not just about me,” Mitchell-Wells said. “It's about my mom, my grandma and my ancestors. Hair holds power. Changing it ...