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In this episode
- What Black women actually go through to manage their hair for work
- How one journalist decided to go natural on air and what happened next
- What her boss said when she told him she was changing her look
- Why hair is never just about hair for Black women in professional spaces
About this episode
In this episode, veteran Chicago TV Journalist and the President of the National Association of Black Journalist, Dorothy Tucker, explains what black women go through to do their hair. She also shares what it was like when she decided to "go natural" at work and what her boss said when she told him she was making the change.*This was recorded before Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the the 2022 Oscars for Rock's joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair style that night.
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