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Second Showing!
Special Film Presentation - August 16
The YWCA periodically presents movies that include issues related to women's empowerment and racial justice. We facilitate a discussion with each film.
This summer we present Chris Rock's documentary "Good Hair," winner of a 2009 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize.
For our second showing, CJ Brown will facilitate discussion after the movie. She serves as chair of the Lafayette Human Relations Commission and was a longtime a cappella song stylist with Sisters of Thunder. This event also will feature domestic violence information for hair stylists, presented by Jasmine Dowd of the YWCA Domestic Violence Intervention & Prevention Program. The public is welcome to attend!
Monday, August 16, 2010
6:00-9:00 p.m.
YWCA, 605 N. 6th Street, Lafayette
Admission is FREE. Donations are accepted.
ADULTS ONLY
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"For me, it was so enriching! I want other hair stylists to see this so we can dialog about it."
-KJ Nutt, Owner, KJ Nutt & Friends Hair Salon
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About the Film
GOOD HAIR (2009) Rated PG-13
When Chris Rock’s daughter Lola came up to him and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of Black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is "Good Hair," a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture. An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, "Good Hair" visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of Black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven-Symoné, Eve, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question. What he discovers is that hair is a big business that doesn’t always benefit the African American community and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.
Rated PG-13 for some language including sex and drug references and brief partial nudity. We ask that adults only attend this event.
Watch the trailer
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Related Resources
Tyra Banks addresses the hair issue on her show:
For PRECIOUS - shown at the YWCA on March 25, 2010:
Learn about Sapphire, the author of "Push"
Katie Couric interviews Sapphire - highly recommended!
Another perspective on the film: "The Black Matriarch as Villain," by Juell Stewart
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Racial Justice Films to Watch
Black Purdue
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