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PRETTY POWERFUL: The Politics of Hair – Don’t Touch My Hair

March 16, 2022 @ 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Speaker Tanya Mears, Associate Professor of African American History at Worcester State University, will give a brief history of the inclusion and exclusion of Afro-textured hair in white mainstream fashion. In conjunction with the Pretty Powerful exhibit. #WACFunded #Power of Culture

Moderator: Charlotte A. Haller, PRETTY POWERFUL: 100 Years of Voting & Style Author, Historian, and Guest Curator.

In Partnership with Worcester Black History Project.  This program is supported in part by a grant from Worcester Art Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Worcester Historical Museum

30 Elm Street

Worcester, MA

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