Big players woo ethnic beauty market
By T. Shawn Taylor Chicago TribuneLike many other black women, Dori Wilson spares no expense when it comes to her hair. The Chicago publicist spends as much as $10,000 a year on shampoos, conditioners, color treatments, weaves, wigs and weekly trips to the salon. “I spend a lot of money because I don’t want to … Read more
Black Enterprise Says Cut Your Locs
”A couple of months ago, Susan L. Taylor, editorial director of Essence magazine, the nation’s leading magazine for black women, said she had backed out of a speaking engagement at Hampton University after learning that “braids, dreadlocks and other unusual hairstyles are not acceptable” for majors in a five-year master’s of business administration program at … Read more
Six Flags Does Not Like Locs
At Six Flags, the Don’ts of Dos Employees Say Their Ethnic Hairstyles Are Challenged as ‘Extreme,’ and They’ve Complained to ACLU By Avis Thomas-Lester Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 17, 2006; B01 It’s right there, under “Extreme Hairstyles,” in the 2006 seasonal handbook for Six Flags America employees: no dreadlocks, tails, partially shaved heads … Read more
Dillard’s Disses Ethnic Hair
Dillard’s says ‘ethnic’ hair harder to clean in response to discrimination suit By Emanuella Grinberg Court TV Vaughan Thomas says a Dillard’s hairstylist told her it was the company’s practice to charge black clients more than white clients. Almost three years after Vaughan Thomas says she paid an inflated price at a Montgomery, Ala., hair … Read more
