Photos courtesy of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive By ·Updated February 2, 2022 Photo Credit: ESSENCE
It was not common, in the 1950s, to witness Black women rocking their natural hair. Before that point, wigs were the popular style choice, as Afros were frowned upon in the workplace and the widespread sentiment of the time was that natural Black hair was unprofessional, unruly and unacceptable. But this didn’t sit
