During the Atlantic slave trade, one of the first things many slave traders did was shave the hair of enslaved Black people to dehumanize and punish them.
According to a survey commissioned by LinkedIn and Dove, 25 percent of Black women between the ages of 25 and 34 have been sent home from work because of their hair.
Black women with coily or textured hair are more likely to experience discrimination than their counterparts with straight hair.
Black people have increasingly embraced a natural hair movement and combated White European beauty standards.
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