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|  | Has the Afro Become an Endangered Species?
| 11/15/2007, 10:07 AM
| |  | The congo drums rumbled in syncopated rhythm. A stylishly nappy couple in African garb Watusi-ed across the TV screen. "Wantu wazuri, use Afro Sheen," sang out the commercial jingle. "Beautiful people, use Afro Sheen."
A sky-high Afro hairstyle was quite the beauty accessory for 1960’s and 70's Black America. Everyone had an Afro from Diana Ross to Aretha Franklin, Hollywood's Cicely Ty...
Read More | | Tags: fashion, Thing, |  |  | How Sandra Got Her (Style) Groove, Lost, and Got it Back Again
| 11/15/2007, 09:28 AM
| |  | In Terri McMillan’s loosely autobiographical How Stella Got Her Groove Back (later made into a movie) an overworked, love-starved middle-aged woman travels to Jamaica and falls for a man half her age. Her real-life Prince Charming unfortunately, just sashayed out of the closet where he’d been hiding all along. I guess that old groove thing has gotten away from Stella once again.
My own...
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