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Well, he’s determined about using everything within one’s reach because his newest lifehack was turning our beloved afro pick into an onion slicer. Last week he shared a video where he pierced ...
An enormous Afro hair pick sculpture by artist Hank Willis Thomas has been erected in Lafayette Square in New Orleans to help foster racial and political awareness and activism. The pick ...
The inventor of the Afro pick, Willie Lee Morrow, died on June 22, 2022. He was 82. Morrow established himself in San Diego, California, in 1959, where he felt there was an opportunity for him to ...
The gigantic steel sculpture of an Afro hair pick that appeared on St. Charles Avenue in the CBD last weekend is everything a public artwork ought to be. At 28 feet tall, the sculpture ...
Willie Lee Morrow, a barber turned entrepreneur who helped popularize tools such as the Afro pick and styles including the one dubbed the Jheri curl over more than half a century as an innovator ...
Of course, not everyone wanted an Afro, even at the height of the Black Power era, and so alongside the pick he developed dozens of other hair care products, many of them straightening and ...
In addition to the Afro pick, he also designed the California curl, widely known as the Jheri curl. His achievements in the hair industry directed to a media career in radio and newspaper.