[video] My Nappy ROOTS celebrities speak out (New Trailer)

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Here is the great new trailer for the documentary My Nappy Roots. Lawsuits withstanding their is enough room for this and the Good Hair documentary to be successful.

I do not have any firsthand knowledge of the any of the legal proceeding but hopefully this can be resolved amicably and I can’t wait to see follow up projects from both camps.

Special thanks to MY NAPPY ROOTS on Twitter for sending this to us! Also visit their website for more info on How To Get A Screening in Your Community..

 

[video] “Good Hair” (Official Trailer)

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When Chris Rocks daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, Daddy, how come I dont have good hair? the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head! Director Jeff Stilsons camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.

An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughters question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesnt always benefit the black community and little Lolas question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.

Recipient of A Special Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary