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Roxanne Shanté (Lolita Gooden) in New York in 1998 (Michael Ochs archives/Getty) Without response records, there would be no Jay...
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The New Breed fashion boutique in Harlem, 1968. (Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) How a 1960s Harlem couple popularized...
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Pop singer Erykah Badu performing in a head wrap in 2001. (Peter Van Breukelen/Redferns via Getty Images) Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity The headwrap has undergone several iterations throughout American history. As a descendant of the cloths that...
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Featured Photo: A woman wearing a zoot at the Harlem Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1939. (Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris/Carnegie...
