Health Vs. Hair: The Battle Between The Perm and the “Firm”

This week on Life Full Circle Radio we are going to talk about Black women, fitness and hair.

Going back to the days of middle and high school, one of the common occurrences was to see the boys playing basketball, kickball and  dodgeball during gym while, the girls sat on the side with their noses turned up looking at the boys and all their developing testosterone getting funky right before science class. Well just a couple of years earlier when those same girls were in pigtails and the class was called "recess" and not gym, they were out there right with the boys playing tag, hoop and soccer. Something happened right around the time that puberty set in for the girls. They started to listen to their moms, sisters and aunties when they told them how much their roots were tightening up because of sweat and activity. In there lies the beginning of the black woman's dilemma. Whats more important, my perm or my "firm?"

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