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August 18, 2020 Issue

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Style
9 Home Hair Care Secrets From a Celebrity Stylist
Tippi Shorter dishes exclusively to Sisters on how we can best care for our hair right now and look and feel our best, including one secret that surprised even me.
By Leslie Quander Wooldridge
, August 14, 2020
5 Min Read
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Style
Know Your Roots? Take Our Black Hair Quiz
From Tiffany Haddish’s big chop to Billie Holiday’s hair prop to that documentary from Chris Rock, the culture around our strands is multitextured. Let’s see if your head’s in the game.
By Pamela K. Johnson
, August 14, 2020
1 Min Read
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Culture & Style
There’s Strength in Our Strands
Hair isn’t just what’s on our head — it unites Black women and symbolizes where we are headed. Writer, producer and image activist Michaela Angela Davis shares a vision for what’s to come.
By Editor in Chief Claire McIntosh
, August 14, 2020
4 Min Read
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We Time
Proud Members of the Curly Hair Girl Club  
Growing up in a Midwestern town with few Black people, it took me years to accept — let alone celebrate — my natural hair. When my niece was 4, I vowed her journey would be different.
By Stacey Parshall Jensen
, August 14, 2020
3 Min Read
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Style
How Quarantine Made Me Finally Embrace My Natural Hair
When your city is being ravaged by a global pandemic, every curl being perfect becomes less and less important.
By Ashley Alese Edwards
, August 14, 2020
4 Min Read
Real Talk for Real Sisters
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