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A Lady in Defiance
- Dec 3, 2010
- 2 min
To Thine Ownself Be True
Relaxers are a popular way to restructure your hair—to use chemicals to
alter the protein chains in hair. In the African American community,
relaxers are especially popular for straightening typically coarse or kinky
hair. However, relaxers are usually detrimental to the hair because they
deprive it of moisture and then break down the structure of the hair.
While many Black women choose to get relaxers anyway in the pursuit of
straighter hair, I never even had the opt
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A Lady in Defiance
- Dec 3, 2010
- 2 min
If You Love Me, You’ll Resecue Me From Hawaii
Back in the early 50’s, my grandma was a young divorcee with an 8 year old
daughter by her first marriage, and my granddaddy was a young widower.
When they met, my grandma had taken a bookkeeping class at a local college
and her teacher recommended her to my granddaddy, who had recently returned
home from the war and started a furniture business. He hired her and they
soon began dating after meeting at work.
However, Burlington was a pretty small town at the time, and
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A Lady in Defiance
- Dec 1, 2010
- 2 min
It’s All True — Just Ask Your Mom
To my knowledge, there is not a large cache of stories told in my extended family: my younger brother parents and I live in North Carolina while the rest of our family lives between Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana and California. We do not get to see them very often, and as a result are simply not close with much family other than ourselves. Thus, my brother and I have few stories to tell about the wild things our grandparents and beyond have supposedly done. We do have one dev
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A Lady in Defiance
- Nov 28, 2010
- 1 min
“He Swallowed What?!”
My grandmother would always tell my sister and I some interesting stories about my Uncle David when he was growing up. These anecdotes ranged from putting mashed potatoes into the vacuum cleaner after dinner one night, breaking more than his fair share of bones (sometimes even two at once!), and writing a poem for his class the morning it was due–and winning a prize for it! One of my favorites that she would often tell us all around the dinner table is of the time that my Unc
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