More black women embracing their hair’s natural style
Tina Ezell Hull
BCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Curls, waves and kinks, welcome back.
After decades of using straightening relaxers and texturizers, more African American women are ditching the lye, embracing their hair’s natural curl and bend, and wearing their hair in a variety of natural styles.
While going from processed to natural isn’t a quick change, those who have are loving it for myriad reasons, from the way their natural hair feels to the way their hair makes them feel about themselves.
“I began to know who I am as an African American woman, seeing the beauty of not wanting my hair straight anymore,” said Tamarla Adams, 39, a teacher with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the University of Phoenix. She began growing out her hair in 1996 after years of perming, gradually trimming the straighter relaxed ends as her curlier natural hair grew in, moving from braids to her current long dreadlocks. Full story
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‘Wire’ creator: Go ahead and snub us, Hollywood
NEW YORK — HBO’s “The Wire,” which opened its fifth and final season Jan. 6, has gotten little recognition in Tinseltown. Executive producer David Simon says that’s fine with him.
The series has been acclaimed by critics and has a cult-like following — but has earned just one Emmy nomination in four seasons. Simon and George Pelecanos were nominated for writing in 2005, but lost.
“I don’t give a [expletive] if we ever win one of their little trinkets,” Simon told Newsweek magazine. “I don’t care if they ever figure out we’re here in Baltimore.
“Secretly, we all know we get more ink for being shut out. So at this point, we wanna be shut out. We wanna go down in flames together, holding hands all the way.”
Each season of “The Wire” has focused on a different aspect of the grit and blight of an American city in decline.
The final installment of “The Wire” casts its withering eye on the media, focusing on layoffs at The Baltimore Sun newspaper — where Simon worked for 13 years as a police reporter before accepting a buyout in 1995 — and how newspapers fail to capture certain complex truths. Full story
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