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 ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel8d
African-American culture gives appreciation for Jewish names, language and dress
Those Jewish acts were visible and audible statements of their identity. Statements of pride in their own culture that ...
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 ...