It is a low-maintenance choice for a busy professional. But for many Black women it's also revolutionary.
Since Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated to become the first Black woman to join the Supreme Court, her judicial opinions, Harvard law degree and, while fielding questions from senators over two days, patient demeanor, have all been on display.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.
"Her locks are beautiful," says stylist Charlotte Van Horn, who has shops in Woodbridge, Va., and Panama. "They're nice and full, and they're very neat. They look very uniform." And in executive suites, the standards have been slower to evolve as Black women worried that they would be deemed less professional if they didn't straighten their hair.
Since high school, she's worn a variety of short natural hairstyles. She's sponged it, twisted it. In college she would comb and pick it out. As a young Senate staffer, she experimented with Bantu knots. The styles set her free, she said. "I fell in love with me and my natural hair, and I began to feel beautiful."
Hope Goins, 42, majority staff director for the House Committee on Homeland Security, has worn her hair in short natural coils for six years. "Sometimes people are unprofessional with me. They want to touch my hair and they want to tell me it's cool or something, or pay more attention to my hair than what I have to say," she said.
"I love Judge Jackson's hair. It is beautiful," she says, "but honestly, it was [Jackson's] brilliance that captivated me."
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