Quick Hit: Birmingham is Going Natural

In case you missed it, here’s a look at the story I wrote a few weeks ago for Weld for Birmingham, a new weekly publication in my great Magic City, about Birmingham’s natural hair community. 


A  few dozen women and I gathered on a Sunday afternoon in the meeting room of the North Birmingham Public Library. Many of us busily took  notes like conscientious college students. But it wasn’t a continuing education course or a business seminar. It was a meeting of the Birmingham Naturalistas, an organization created to empower African-American women who choose to wear their hair in its natural state.


Click here to read the entire story.