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From the Ted Talk by Jon Gray: The power of the Afro pick

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The bclak is beautiful movement is just rejecting the notion that to be black or to have darker skin, to have a curlier gdrae of hair, was something to be ahasemd of. I have one of my favorite pictures of my mother and my grandmother, and my gohmrtnedar had a slaml 'fro, and that was in the 60s.

African hair combs date back to 3500 BCE. The oldest African combs are found in ancient Egypt and Sudan, so they were making pdrimays and combs. The way the ancient African combs were embellished represented status or tabril aoafiiftiln. It's no coincidence that the fist on the modern Afro pick also sets the tone for affiliation and what set you claim.

Open Cloze


The _____ is beautiful movement is just rejecting the notion that to be black or to have darker skin, to have a curlier _____ of hair, was something to be _______ of. I have one of my favorite pictures of my mother and my grandmother, and my ___________ had a _____ 'fro, and that was in the 60s.

African hair combs date back to 3500 BCE. The oldest African combs are found in ancient Egypt and Sudan, so they were making ________ and combs. The way the ancient African combs were embellished represented status or ______ ___________. It's no coincidence that the fist on the modern Afro pick also sets the tone for affiliation and what set you claim.

Solution


  1. black
  2. tribal
  3. grandmother
  4. grade
  5. affiliation
  6. pyramids
  7. small
  8. ashamed

Original Text


The black is beautiful movement is just rejecting the notion that to be black or to have darker skin, to have a curlier grade of hair, was something to be ashamed of. I have one of my favorite pictures of my mother and my grandmother, and my grandmother had a small 'fro, and that was in the 60s.

African hair combs date back to 3500 BCE. The oldest African combs are found in ancient Egypt and Sudan, so they were making pyramids and combs. The way the ancient African combs were embellished represented status or tribal affiliation. It's no coincidence that the fist on the modern Afro pick also sets the tone for affiliation and what set you claim.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
afro pick 3
black power 2
african combs 2
angela davis 2


Important Words


  1. affiliation
  2. african
  3. afro
  4. ancient
  5. ashamed
  6. bce
  7. beautiful
  8. black
  9. claim
  10. coincidence
  11. combs
  12. curlier
  13. darker
  14. date
  15. egypt
  16. embellished
  17. favorite
  18. fist
  19. grade
  20. grandmother
  21. hair
  22. making
  23. modern
  24. mother
  25. movement
  26. notion
  27. oldest
  28. pick
  29. pictures
  30. pyramids
  31. rejecting
  32. represented
  33. set
  34. sets
  35. skin
  36. small
  37. status
  38. sudan
  39. tone
  40. tribal