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  2. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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    The most studied black hair gene is MC1R which causes the body to produce a protein called melanocortin. [3] This protein causes hair follicles to produce a type of melanin pigmentation called eumelanin. [3] Black hair has the highest concentration of this pigmentation with brown, blonde and red hair following behind. [3]

  3. Brown hair - Wikipedia

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    A close-up view of brown hair Woman with brown hair. Brown hair, also referred to as brunette (when female), is the second-most common human hair color, after black hair. It varies from light brown to dark hair. It is characterized by higher levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment pheomelanin.

  4. Franklin (Peanuts) - Wikipedia

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    Schulz said of Franklin's first appearance, July 31, 1968, when he met Charlie Brown at the beach, "They'd never met before because they went to different schools," adding, "but they had fun playing ball so Charlie Brown invited Franklin to visit him." [13] Franklin quoted the Old Testament, and had no anxieties or obsessions. [13]

  5. Human hair color - Wikipedia

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    Brown hair is the second most common human hair color, after black. Brown hair is characterized by higher levels of eumelanin and lower levels of pheomelanin. Of the two types of eumelanin (black and brown), brown-haired people have brown eumelanin; they also usually have medium-thick strands of hair. Brown-haired girls or women of European ...

  6. Conk - Wikipedia

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    Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.

  7. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    The physical appearance of each type is briefly described, including colour adjectives referring to skin and hair colour: rufus "red" and pilis nigris "black hair" for Americans, albus "white" and pilis flavescentibus "yellowish hair" for Europeans, luridus "yellowish, sallow", pilis nigricantibus "swarthy hair" for Asians, and niger "black ...

  8. Black hair - Wikipedia

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    Black hair is the darkest and most common of all human hair colors globally, due to large populations with this trait. This hair type contains a much more dense quantity of eumelanin pigmentation in comparison to other hair colors, such as brown, blonde and red. [1]

  9. Gary Dourdan - Wikipedia

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    Gary Dourdan (born Gary Robert Durdin: December 11, 1966) is an American actor.He is known for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Shazza Zulu on the television series A Different World and Mickey Monroe in crime thriller Righteous Villains.