Hair Story by NoNieqa Ramos

Author:NoNieqa Ramos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lerner Publications Company

Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Grace Jones is a

legendary model, singer, and actor who starred as

Amazonian Zula in the 1984 film Conan the Destroyer.

She is famous for her striking sense of style and

radical high-top fade. She said, “I do change roles

in life, I live that way. I go feminine, I go masculine.

I am both, actually.”

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin

Kaepernick is known for his protests before football

games. In 2016, he began kneeling during the national

anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality

against Black people. Kaepernick faced criticism for

his protests from politicians and fellow athletes. He

was featured in Nike’s thirtieth anniversary “Just Do

It” campaign with the slogan, “Believe in something.

Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954), one of

Mexico’s greatest artists, is known especially for her

self-portraits. She created more than two hundred

paintings including Self Portrait with Cropped Hair

in which she depicts herself with her long hair cut

off and scattered on the floor and Self Portrait

with Braid in which she has reattached her hair.

Kahlo said, “The most important part of the body is

the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.”

Cheslie Kryst is a lawyer who earned the Miss USA

title in 2019, the first year in which Black women

won all three of America’s biggest beauty pageants.

Kryst is currently a diversity adviser for a law firm

and is a correspondent for the TV program Extra.

World-renowned Puerto Rican astrologer and

television personality Walter Mercado (March 9,

1932–November 2, 2019) gave daily horoscopes

to 120 million viewers for more than thirty years.

With his golden coiffed hair, crystal jewelry, and

gem encrusted capes, he encouraged people to be

whoever they wanted to be. His signature phrase

“con mucho mucho amor” (with much, much love)

delivered messages of hope, strength, and love.

Eva Perón (May 7, 1919–July 26, 1952) was born as

María Eva Duarte, later became Eva Duarte de

Perón, and was often called Eva Perón or simply

Evita. When her husband Juan Perón was president

of Argentina, she used her power as First Lady to

champion the rights of women and poor people.

Her best-known hairstyle was bleached blond hair

slicked back into a braided chignon (bun).

Diana Ross is the legendary Motown lead singer of

the Supremes, one of the world’s most successful

girl groups of all time. Their hits included “Baby

Love” and “Stop! In the Name of Love.” Ross was a

pioneer of Black natural hair. She said, “I can be a

better me than anyone can.”

Tracee Ellis Ross, daughter of Diana Ross, is an

actor and founder of Pattern Beauty, a hair-care

line for curly hair. She said, “Here is my wish and my

desire. . . . That we own and know that we are more

than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred,

beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.”

Known as the Moses of her people, Harriet Tubman

(ca. 1823–March 10, 1913) led hundreds of enslaved

Black people to freedom on the Underground

Railroad. She also served as a Civil War nurse, a

scout, and a spy. Tubman was injured as a teen

when a white overseer threw a weight at an

enslaved man and struck her in the head instead.

She said, “My hair had never been combed and it

stood out like a bushel basket.

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