Afro
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It was also great for Johnson Products: Sales of Afro Sheen soared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was because Roy Ayers — the bearded man with an Afro on the album cover — was my biological father.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
It spawned some of the band's best-loved songs, including Kinky Afro, Loose Fit and Step On, their era-defining version of John Kongos's 1971 hit He's Gonna Step on You Again.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
Arnaz gained celebrity as the American popularizer of the conga, an Afro Cuban line dance that his father had once tried to ban.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
She looks like she was plucked right out of an anime, starring an Afro Korean swordswoman.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
That meant little to us as teens wearing big ties and platform shoes, listening to rock and roll while even white guys sported Afros and we all began dancing to disco.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2025
Education Minister Nyan Gadsby Dolly called for new rules that would allow students to wear Afros, locks, twists, plaits and cornrows, which are called canerows in the Caribbean in reference to sugarcane.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
This was the mid-’70s, the apex of outlandish sideburns, ABA Afros and glittering Cadillacs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
It was a time of Black Power, Afros and dashikis, yet I was welcomed graciously.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2022
Afros today are rare, dashikis even rarer; Black Panther founder Bobby Seale is best known today for peddling a line of barbecue products.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
