Rolling Out7d
Hidden meanings behind African American braiding styles
Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...
PBS3y
The Cotton Economy and Slavery
At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was exploding, creating enormous international demand for cotton clothing ... more than a million African Americans were carried off ...
Tariffs will make sneakers, jeans and almost everything Americans wear cost more, trade groups warn
Sending children back to school in new sneakers, jeans and T-shirts is likely to cost U.S. families significantly more this ...
NC State student accused of embezzling nearly $15K from student organization
NC State University senior Khiara Dargan is facing allegations of embezzling nearly $15,000 from the African American Textile ...
Smithsonian Magazine9y
A Brief History of the Zoot Suit
Fox was one among many, from Chicago to Harlem to Memphis, who took credit for inventing the zoot suit—the term came out of African-American ... says Peiss, “fashion can be a way of claiming ...