Even though afro hair is thick, it’s also fragile. Skinner chose to exaggerate his design based on Alexandra’s words, designing the pick to resemble a hand with five fingers and acrylic nails ...

An enormous Afro hair pick sculpture by artist Hank Willis Thomas has been erected in Lafayette Square in New Orleans […] The post Ginormous afro pick, jail cell featured in exhibition to ...

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — At community gardens, public parks, and at colleges in Queens you’ll find works of art in the shape of afro picks, those long combs used to style tightly curled hair.

The Afro hair pick sculpture sits prominently near Gallier Hall, ... is very fitting for this time and place,” a Cantrell administration spokesperson wrote in an email about Thomas’ art.

On its website, Saks is selling one $300 gold afro pick and another one priced at $600. The designer, Afra, also makes a $180 mini hair clip shaped like an afro pick.

This morning’s mural announcement in Headhouse Square had all the right stuff: art, Black Thought (Tariq Trotter) and and a hair pick. Peter Crimmins was at the event on Second Street where the Mural ...

Dr. Willie L. Morrow, inventor of the first commercially produced Afro pick comb and author of 400 Years Without a Comb: The Untold Story, shares the evolution of his career as barber, inventor ...

A year ago, Philadelphia hosted a citywide experiment involving public monuments as 20 pieces of art were displayed — temporarily — in parks and plazas. The project was focused on measuring the public ...

A Black hair care pioneer and entrepreneur known for popularizing the Afro pick comb has passed away at 82. Willie Lee Morrow is now being remembered and celebrated following his death in late ...

Afro pick art goes up near Rizzo sculpture. Sep 13, 2017 ... A sculpture of an Afro pick is seen near a statue of former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo outside the city ...