Young Michael Jackson
The Supremes
The Afro Comb is still finds itself in popular culture today:
Rapper/Hip-Hop artists Ludacris
A popular costume called "DiscoFro"
T-shirt depicting the Afro Comb and the clenched Black Power fist
Important artifacts throughout history tend to come and go. But their message always stays. Could African-American's live without the Afro Comb? Of course. But it will always remain an incredible source of self-expression for Black individuals. For Africans, it was an art form--a nothing crafted into something that told stories and bore great cultural and philosophical meaning. For African Americans, it was the embodiment of a truth long denied to an entire culture of people: Black is Beautiful.
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