Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 21, 2022
It took 28-year-old Anita Grant more than 20 years to let anyone outside of her close family see her natural hair.
The Toronto, Canada native said it was because she’d seen mainstream media tout euro-centered beauty standards that made her feel like, as a black girl, she had to hide—a notion not uncommon for her neighboring sisters in the US and beyond.
Black women’s hair
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