By Wanda Coleman

Children get your culture
and don't stay there and gesture
Oh the battle will be hotter
And you won't get no supper
Natty dread, natty dread now
-Bob Marley

Following my father's death in January 1991, I neglected my hair care for several days, giving in to grief and tears. My already thick ebony hair, worn in an afro, began to tangle, twist, and dread. → Read more