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A medium length hi-top fade. Hi-top fade is a haircut where hair on the sides is cut off or kept very short while hair on the top of the head is grown long. [1]The hi-top was a trend during the golden age of hip hop and urban contemporary music of the 1980s and the early 1990s. [2]
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.
As with women, African American men have also faced hairstyle-based discrimination in the workplace. In the case of Thornton v. Encore Global, [75] Jeffery Thornton, a black man sued his former employer Encore Global denying him a job as a technical supervisor after working for the company for four years. [75]
Any one of the four gray “X-Men” wigs without laid edges could win an award for “good and terrible.” — Izzy Best Samuel L. Jackson’s cornrows in ‘Formula 51’
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The hairstyle was popular on adolescents and men from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Dido flip: A "short choppy shag", popularized by British pop singer Dido. Ducktail: A hairstyle predominantly favored by men, though some young female fans of Elvis Presley wore a similar look in his heyday.
Hip-hop artist and actor Ice Cube wearing a Jheri curl hairstyle, 1987. The Jheri curl (often spelled Jerry curl or Jeri Curl) is a permanent wave hairstyle that was popular among Black Americans during the 1980s and early 1990s.
The Hidden Genius Project empowers black male youth through technology and leadership training at their 12th annual Brothers Code event.