The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

All content by Chanel Lebrun
A hairstylist twists a clients hair at Lizs Hair Care. Black women have often been compelled to meet Eurocentric beauty standards and struggled to get beauty products that worked with their hair.

Op-ed: You can’t touch my hair 

Chanel Lebrun, contributor
February 25, 2023

The transatlantic slave trade did more than just sell people into slavery. By performing a single brutal deed — shaving the hair of African enslaved people  — slaves were robbed of their cultural...

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