We talk about our hair journey on a regular basis, but what’s it like for a man? Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles is a unique memoir that explores Black hair from a man’s point of view. Infused with ...
Obsession with black hair is usually considered the provenance of black women, not black men. It is the women we see worrying about whether to go natural, relaxed or straightened—whether to weave, ...
Bertram Ashe writes about life with dreadlocks in ‘Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles. (Photo by Jordan Ashe, Courtesy of Agate Publishing) One day, not long ago, professor and author Bertram Ashe, who ...
For most of his life, Bert Ashe appeared to the world as an ordinary, mainstream black guy. Wearing short-cropped hair and button-down shirts on his slender body, he blended in. And then he got ...
At the start of “Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles,” Bert Ashe writes that he decided in 1998 to realize a lifelong dream of growing dreadlocks because he wanted to “go outside.” By that he means he ...
MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP) — A Black high school student in Texas has served more than two weeks of in-school suspensions for wearing twisted dreadlocks to school. When he arrived Monday with the same ...
Prayagraj: The style of living of sadhus and seers are an enigma for devotees and pilgrims, and the several feet long dreadlocks dangling from their shoulders and their queer arrangements draw curious ...
A Texas school is under fire after a Black student was suspended because he wears his hair in dreadlocks, in the same week the state banned discrimination based on hairstyles. Darryl George, 17, was ...
One of the saddest trends we’ve seen in recent months is people being fired for wearing dreadlocked hair. The latest among them is 16-year-old Tyler House, who was let go from her part-time job at a ...