Crowning Freedom: The Power of Dreadlocks

They call it a hairstyle. We call it history. Dreadlocks weren’t born in salons. They were born in

rebellion, in prayer, in power. Long before combs and clippers our

ancestors wore their spirit in strands. From the temples of ancient Egypt, to the warriors

of Ethiopia, from Hindu holy men to the Maasai elders locks were a crown.

Sacred. Spiritual. Strong. But when Black people wore them in the

West, suddenly they became “dirty.” “Unprofessional.” “Dangerous.”

Here’s what they don’t tell you the word dreadlocks came from colonizers. They looked at our

hair and called it “dreadful.” What they feared wasn’t the hair… it was the freedom