LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Black woman’s hair isn’t just hair. It’s an extension of their identity.
“It’s something that we’ve always just held near and dear to us,” said Kemara Hall.
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Hall owns Silk Sovereignty Salon and Head Spa in Lexington. Her clients come from diverse backgrounds and have different hair textures. In the Black community, quick weaves, sew-ins, wigs, and braids are all examples of popular hairstyles. Each style is also a statement of self-expression, pride, and history. For enslaved Africans, their hair became a tool for survival.
“They would store food, such as rice and things, underneath the cornrows to have food for when enslaved people were trying to escape to freedom,” said Hall…