06/16/2026
Pressed. Braided. Loc’d. Faded. Twisted. Wrapped. Natural. Wigged. Weaved. Bald. Beaded. Cornrowed. Picked out. Pixie cut. Slicked back. In bantu knots. In a silk press.
I remember sitting in horror during my 1L year of law school as our career services staff told us that we would not get a job with locs–as I sat there with freshly retwisted dreadlocs.
The problem was never our hair.
The problem was the systems that decided professionalism had to look like proximity to whiteness. Black hair does not need to be “tamed” to be appropriate.
Our hair is not a distraction. Edge control isn’t policy. It is acceptable because it is ours. Black is Professional.