Afro

It was also great for Johnson Products: Sales of Afro Sheen soared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Pio Pico, the last governor of Mexican California, was — like many of the settlers who had founded the city of Los Angeles in 1781 — probably a man with Afro Mexican origins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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

The young millennial rocked different hairstyles and loved switching it up: a curly Afro one week, two-strand twists the next, micro plaited braids and a range of cornrow designs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

Cursing her incompetence, she stole one of Trotter’s magazines and cut from it a picture of a tall, beautiful black woman in an Afro.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

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

“I started doing a deep dive of his films. In the final number of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ there’s this moment that is ’70s as all get-out with the Afros and the fashion,” Brewer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

They continued jumping, their box braids and Afros bouncing to the beat as they filmed on their phones.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2022

Lawmakers who supported the legislation said broadening what race means will prevent discrimination against people who wear natural or protective hairstyles, which include cornrows, twists, braids and Afros.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

Our girls allowed their hair to grow out naturally into styles called Afros.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson