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Natural Hair Movement
African-American culture has increasingly embraced natural hair through the natural hair movement. It includes people with afro-textured hair who resist the images used to represent them and abstain from the use of chemical hair products in favor of products that will promote healthy natural hair. The initial emergence of the natural hair movement occurred in the 1960's with activist such as Marcus Garvey and Angela Davis supporting the movement. In the late 1970's-1980s, the natural hair movement began to slow down due to the social pressures placed on African- Americans to assimilate to European Beauty Standards. It wasn't until the 2000s that the second wave of the natural hair movement emerged. The movement has been greatly influenced by society and media, ranging from the work and appearance of textile artist Sonya Clark, singer Solange Knowles, poet Maya Angelou and actress Lupita Nyong'o to an uprising of natural hair-focused YouTube channels and blogs............ The movement seeks to encourage black women to embrace their natural hair despite negative stereotypes that are birthed by the impacts of European Beauty Standards seen in the media and other forms of popular culture. . More recently, the natural hair movement has found momentum online with various vloggers documenting their natural hair journey to encourage other African American women to participate in the movement, educate the public, and create positive images of black hair online. The movements popularity has encouraged corporations and government agencies to create policies that are inclusive of black natural hair. Add one new image!