My Loc Journey

What a jolt it was to see my own face staring back at me from my laptop!

Karen over at Naturally Beautiful Hair posted my essay, Bold Cuts, about my loc journey! I'm so grateful that she's allowed me to share my relationship with my hair with even more people. Thank you, Karen!

Naturally Beautiful Hair is a lovely site dedicated to black women and our natural hairstyles. The interviews and testimonies are my favorites, while the photos always make me proud to be black and natural! Go check out Naturally Beautiful Hair and get inspired!

Shortly after I submitted my essay, I chopped my locs! This is me now!

A Great and Mighty Walk

The film above is called A Great and Mighty Walk. John Henrik Clarke--an esteemed, self-taught historian and Pan African--talks about the history of Africans and our entanglements with Europeans, how our spirituality became their conquering religion, criticisms of the civil rights movement and Islam, and what is truly necessary for liberation. I found this 90 minute film totally riveting. Hopefully, it will resonate deeply with you, too.

http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/clarke3.html

Click this link to read his autobiographical obituary. These are his last words before he passed in July 1998. (The film was made in 1996.)

Enjoy and, please, pass it on.