The AFRO ✊🏾✨️ In the late 1960s and 70s, the Afro became a powerful symbol of pride, beauty, and resistance. For decades, Black people were pressured to straighten their hair with hot combs and chemicals to fit into white society’s standards. But during the Black Power era, natural hair became a political statement. ✊🏾 Figures like Angela Davis turned the Afro into an international icon of liberation. Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panther Party openly said that Black people wore their hair nat