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  2. Why this Black engineer makes a point of wearing braids in ...

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    "Women make up 15% of engineering jobs; that's women in general. Black people make up 5% of all engineering jobs," says O'Reilly, referring to a 2021 Pew research study on Gender, Racial and ...

  3. Box braids - Wikipedia

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    Older women would gather with their girls and teach them how to braid. [5] Box braids are also commonly worn by the Khoisan people of South Africa [6] and the Afar people in the horn of Africa. [7] [8] In Africa, braid styles and patterns have been used to distinguish tribal membership, marital status, age, wealth, religion and social ranking.

  4. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of hairstyles - Wikipedia

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    In the 1980s and 1990s, asymmetric was a popular staple of Black hip hop fashion, among women and men. Braid: A braid, also known as a plait, is a type of hairstyle usually worn by women with long hair in which all or part of one's hair is separated into strands, normally three, and then plaited or braided together, typically forming one braid ...

  6. Cynthia Erivo Pushed for Elphaba to Have Micro-Braids in ...

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    The Harriet star is only the second Black woman to portray the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz universe, following Alexia Khadime who held the role in the West End production of ...

  7. Doja Cat’s Futuristic Braid and Graphic Makeup Won the 2021 BBMAs

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    Doja Cat at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards held at the Microsoft Theater on May 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Todd Williamson/NBC Out of this world! Doja Cat pretty much shut down the 2021 ...

  8. Braid (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    Braids have been part of black culture going back generations. There are pictures going as far back as the year 1884 showing a Senegalese woman with braided hair in a similar fashion to how they are worn today. [15] Braids are normally done tighter in black culture than in others, such as in cornrows or box braids. While this leads to the style ...

  9. Protective hairstyle - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] These laws were not overturned until the Black Power Movement in the 60s and 70s. Even after the laws were overturned, many still faced discrimination due to their hair type and hairstyles. This had stripped many people of the use of their braids as a form of culture to the use of braids as function; to keep hair manageable.