For Latines from the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico to Afro-Latine residents of Loiza, Puerto Rico, braids have deep cultural significance—and special meaning. For so many of us, summertime invokes ...

My uncle deserved better. Indigenous people deserve better." According to Crowe, within weeks of his braids being removed, her uncle was moved to a long-term care facility where he later died.