Naturally Fierce Feature: Courtney

My name is Courtney I’m from Staten Island. I’m currently in graduate school for biology hopefully to be in medical school in 2 years. My mother relaxed my hair when I was in the 4th grade and I made the decision in Dec 2011 to stop relaxing my hair. How long have you been natural?I cut all of my relaxed ends in Jan 2013, so technically almost 7 month (a baby natural) but between all the learning and researching over my transition period I like to say almost a year and 7 months. What motivated … [Read more...]


A Weave Is Not A Protective Style; It’s Just A Weave

  by Charing BallThis is not an anti-hair weave post but rather, this is a pro-truth post. And the hardcore, nitty-gritty straight no chaser-kind truth is that a weave is not a protective style. A weave is just a weave. Yeah I know, what business is it of mine what someone else puts on their head? It isn’t my business – until folks try to convince me that what I’m seeing is not what I am actually seeing. And that is what has been happening as of late in a couple of the natural hair social … [Read more...]