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2. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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   African-American hair or Black hair refers to hair types, textures, and styles that are linked to African-American culture, often drawing inspiration from African hair culture. It plays a major role in the identity and politics of Black culture in the United States and across the diaspora . [ 1 ]

3. Groupon - Wikipedia

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   They wanted to round up people to buy the same product in order to receive a group discount. Founder Eric Lefkofsky wanted the company to pivot in order to focus entirely on group buying. Born from The Point, Groupon was launched in November 2008. [15] [16] [17] The name for the e-commerce platform, Groupon is a portmanteau of "group" and ...

4. Black-owned business - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, Black-owned businesses (or Black businesses), also known as African American businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865.Emancipation and civil rights permitted businessmen to operate inside the American legal structure starting in the Reconstruction Era (1863–77) and afterwards.

5. Kinky hair - Wikipedia

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   Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [11] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa.

6. African-American culture - Wikipedia

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   African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.

7. Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia

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   The 1960 film I Passed for White features an African-American character who is accepted as white. The 1973 film The Spook Who Sat by the Door features a bank robbery conducted by an African American underground guerrilla group. Lighter-skinned members, who use wigs to pass as white, are purposefully used.