Step 3 Plans for the CURLYTREATS Natural Hair Festival
The Big Hair Assembly – World Afro Day 2021
The Big Hair Assembly global sign up, launches 25th February. The actual event will be held at 1:30pm BST, Wednesday 15th September 2021 and this will also mark the 5th anniversary of World Afro Day. The assembly will be hosted in the UK by the broadcaster and award-winning saxophonist, YolanDa Brown and in the USA
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Halo Code, The UK’s First Black Hair Code – Fighting Hair Discrimination
Young Black activists from the Advocacy Academy created the ‘Halo Code’ campaign pledge to fight against hair discrimination.
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Featurism: Blue Ivy Attacked by Anti-Black Mainstream Media
Blue Ivy, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 7-year-old daughter was attacked online by two adults, a Vanity Fair film critic and Harper’s web editor for having Black features. K. Austin Collins, a male film critic at Vanity Fair, in a since-deleted tweet wrote: “I have a feeling the jay z face genes are about to really hit
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‘Rip up the Dress Code’ – Afrovisibility Billboard Campaign 2019
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Congratulations! World Afro Day’s Social Impact Winner, Lekia Lee of Project Embrace
Lekia Lée is a former broadcast journalist and founder of Project Embrace, a platform promoting unconditional self-love, inspiring women to love and embrace their natural hair
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World Afro Day’s Social Impact Finalist: CURLYTREATS Founder, Vinna Best
CURLYTREATS Founder, Vinna Best nominated for the Social Impact Award by World Afro Day 2018.
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‘Change the Facts, Not the Fro’ – World Afro Day Campaign 2018
Ogilvy, Wavemaker and World Afro Day pioneers a new awareness campaign ‘Change the Facts, Not the Fro’.
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“Proud to be me” – Afrovisibility Billboard Campaign 2018
Project Embrace’s #Afrovisibility campaign is an outdoor campaign featuring powerful images of black women wearing their afro hair in natural, unapologetic styles.
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