BOOKS & READINGS
A children’s book with rhymes and illustrations that celebrate self-acceptance and self-love, This ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves!
A talk given by Alice Walker on Founders’ Day, April 11, 1987, at Spelman College in Atlanta.
Monique W. Morris chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose complex lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish.
MOVIES
Back to Natural is a 69-minute documentary film that reveals the shocking truth about hair, politics, and racial identity in Black communities and beyond. A powerful call for healing, this ground breaking film takes a grassroots approach to exploring the globalized policing of natural Black hair.
Comedian Chris Rock sets out to explore the importance of hair in black culture. Rock interviews celebrities such as Ice-T and Raven Symone, and visits hair salons, stylist competitions and even an Indian temple to learn about hair culture.
Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film directed by Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., and Bruce W. Smith, and written by Cherry. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter's hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother.
"My Nappy Roots" explores the politics, culture and history of African American hair. Is there such a thing as "Good and Bad" hair? How has the Eurocentric ideal of beauty influenced black hair through modern history?
A soulful barber helps a woman pick up the pieces of her life after an accident at her hair salon makes her realise that she isn't living her life to the fullest.
The Big Chop follows 10 year old Kris on her natural hair journey of self love and acceptance. Once a die hard lover of her big afro, negative hints from her mom and teasing on the playground causes Kris to get a perm. She continues to perm her hair as an adult until one day she does the 'big chop.'