April 20, 2004 at 12:00 am #18203
Joe-B30583
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Even though African women may have been braiding their hair like that for centuries (not ‘thousands of years’), it seems you’re forgetting that the act of braiding hair in that style vastly increased in popularity among black men and women in the United States as well as white women after the movie ’10’. So it was a new craze after the movie. I can’t recall ever seeing blacks wear their hair that way prior to the 1980s. By the way, the craze is pretty much over among white women.