Jezebel: Cornrows

Boy Banned From School For Wearing Cornrows

Anna North — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:35:00 EDT

A London boy was sent home from his first day of school for wearing his hair in cornrows, which apparently violated his school's strict dress code. Now a court has ruled this was discriminatory. More »

Kim Kardashian "Accidentally" Takes On The Music Biz

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:52:00 EST

"I didn't mean to," Kim said to a crowd in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, "but I did this song with The-Dream." Didn't mean to? Uh-huh. Yeah. Sure. More »

Teen Vogue: Be A "Gender Bender" With A Blazer & Cornrows

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

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The November issue of Teen Vogue has the words "Pretty in Punk" on the cover, but the closest thing you'll find inside is a peculiar, joyless "Gender Benders" fashion spread. The concept? Mixing pretty dresses with structured jackets, "tomboy" shoes and playful purses. Sounds fun! Unfortunately, the results are, well, bizarre. Confusing, even. And it's hard to focus on the clothes, because they've given the pretty, blonde, Caucasian model cornrows. Gender bending? If you're channeling Latrell Sprewell, perhaps. Check out a few of the pictures from the shoot, after the jump. More »

After This Week, We Never Want To Hear The Words "Manolo" or "Cosmo" Ever Again

Jessica G. — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:40:00 EDT

Unless you're living in a closet on Mars, you know that the Sex and the City movie premiered today.
Slut Machine live blogged it wearing flip flops and eating some skittles. Suck on that, Louboutin wearers.
The only part of the Sex and the City franchise that we're not sick of is Pat Field and her fabulous, gay, Payless lifestyle.
Tyra Banks revealed her plans for world domination in the New York Times.
TyTy sort of looked like a Bratz doll on that Times Mag cover; Bratz are also involved in world domination schemes

Why Cast A Black Actress In Your Movie When You Can Get Mena Suvari In Cornrows?

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Today's Los Angeles Times has a story about Mena Suvari, who is starring in a new film, Stuck, by Stuart Gordon. She plays Brandi, a young woman who hits a homeless man with her car late one night, sending him right through the windshield. Brandi panics and drives home (with the guy still in her windshield) and tries to go on with her life. The plot is based on a true story — the woman's name was Chante Mallard, and she hit a homeless man in 2001 after she spent an evening smoking pot, drinking and taking Ecstasy with friends. Her boyfriend later ditched the body in a park. Mallard is now serving a 50-year jail sentence. Mallard, it should be noted, is black. Mena Suvari is not. But she does wear cornrows to play the role of Brandi. More »

Despite What 'Glamour' Editors Say, Wear An Afro... Or Go Bald And Get AIDS

Jennifer — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:30:00 EDT

Black women have got it hard! First Glamour magazine tells them that Afros and dreads are absolutely not okay for the workplace, and now a new study shows that wearing tight braids/cornrows yields extreme hair loss in women:

A study of nearly 2,000 adults and children in South Africa found that one in seven schoolgirls and a third of women were suffering from "traction alopecia", hair loss thought to be caused by excessive and prolonged pulling of the hair....Hair loss was found to be more common in children whose hair had been chemically "relaxed" or straightened to form a ponytail. One in five children with relaxed hair had traction alopecia, against just one in twenty of those with natural hair. In adults, hair loss was found to be more likely among women with either "relaxed" hair or braided natural hair, as against natural hair without braids; and it was most common when the hair was relaxed and also had extensions (such as braids or weaves) attached.