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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aina J Khan

‘Times have changed’: how attitudes to black hairstyles are evolving

Lukwesa Burak reading the news with braids for the BBC
Lukwesa Burak reading the news with braids for the BBC. Photograph: BBC

When the news presenter Lukwesa Burak first started working at the BBC, she was told that her afro-textured hair was “too ethnic”.

Ten years later, a photograph of the black British broadcaster wearing sweeping braids as she presented the news went viral on Twitter.

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