PEOPLE Brandy is reflecting on her groundbreaking role as the first Black princess to wear braids in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. For ELLE.com's State of Black Beauty digital issue ...

Brandy is reflecting on her groundbreaking role as the first Black princess to wear braids in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. For ELLE.com's State of Black Beauty digital issue, the iconic singer ...

For the State of Black Beauty ... and it takes so much time for the braid artists who are doing my hair. The art they express is unbelievable. I want to wear them for the rest of my life.

A black Banana Republic employee is calling out her place of business for their comments about her “urban unkempt” box braids, which her white manager deemed “inappropriate” for their store.

That was what I felt would be so much cooler — if Cinderella also had braids, you know? Because, yes, there’s the first Black princess. That’s amazing. Unbelievable. But what if we just take ...

“There’s no reason why a white person should feel allowed to tell me that I can’t wear my hair the way that I want bc it’s too black for their store image. #boycottbanana Banana Republic.” This post ...