Your face is in their face — an inch away — for 40 whole minutes. Listen, we are literally eye-to-eye with these anchors, in front of their face, creating a look — and they are trusting you.
You become their therapist. You get them distracted. From long experience, Pomerantz knows exactly what to do about weepy anchors. Now the eye shadow is going to be a bit difficult when they cry, but a little concealer around the eye works. Hair a mess? Not such a big deal. Bald spot somewhere on a man?
Unwashed hair? If you ask certain news anchors, the charmed beneficiaries of all this care and embellishment, they are of two minds. I am grateful to have no fuss and no muss. Noble Jones spent years straightening her natural hair with chemical relaxers and, later, wearing weaves, while working at stations in Tennessee, Michigan, and Missouri.
For a while she was getting "babylights," because a stylist told her the subtle highlights would add the appearance of volume under bright studio lights. She keeps extra bottles of sprays, shine serums and dry shampoos at her desk and in her bag for touch ups on the go — all paid for out-of-pocket. Around the time of the birth of her first child in , Noble Jones decided it was time for a change. She was working at a station in Jackson, Mississippi. Her contract stipulated that she needed to run any changes in appearance by the station for approval, so when she returned from maternity leave, she asked her boss if she could start wearing her natural hair.
He signed off. In late March of , she went to work without straightening her hair for the first time in eight years. The move received coverage — and kudos — from national outlets. But after a month, she says, she got word the station wanted her to go back to straight hair. Jones, now freelancing in New York, is currently wearing box braids. To her, the ability to express herself and stop damaging her hair is no longer negotiable when it comes to finding a job.
Diversity and representation in general — whether gender, race or appearance — at the station level has started to slowly improve. But serious shifts, especially when it comes to beauty standards for female talent, will require changes at the top. There are some signs that is starting to happen. Rudd praised her current station management for their laissez-faire approach to her hair. She no longer gets pushed to cut or style her hair in certain ways.
Earlier this year, she proposed doing an experiment where went on-air without doing her hair or makeup for an entire week. The management signed off enthusiastically, and the segment was a hit with viewers. Now, one colleague wears natural hair and another has a small tattoo — another former taboo.
So you can throw your hair up in a bun. You can do this, too. Pringle has received messages from viewers saying that she is the reason they went natural, as well as notes from parents who say that she has made their daughters with short hair more confident in themselves. Period," Pringle shares.
Each woman points out that they would not be able to wear these hairstyles on-air today without the bravery of the Black women newscasters who came before them. They could not show millions of other women the possibility of doing things differently if they had not been shown by others. Through online networks, group chats, and professional organizations like the National Association of Black Journalists , Black women reporters are able to connect, support, and inspire one another to wear their hair how they want on air.
What we're doing is so much bigger than us. And together, they are rewriting professionalism. Their definition does not include Eurocentric beauty standards.
It does not include words like distracting or neat. Their definition of professionalism is ever-evolving, fluid, open-minded, and subjective. It's just hair. I, myself, am a journalist. How I deliver the news, how I conduct interviews, how I tell stories — that's the professional part of it. After breaking barriers, personal milestones, and outdated expectations, the anchors feel empowered enough to attempt different things with their hair. They excitedly list new aspirations like adding color, trying Senegalese and passion twists, and wearing their own natural curls on air.
With the work of the CROWN Act Coalition and the tenacity of these women, it is easier to envision a future in which the definition of "professional hair" that rejects Blackness is obsolete. All three newscasters believe that a more inclusive future of TV news is on the horizon, but it takes courageous leaders to change the status quo. In the end, Obilor, Bailey, and Reid hope the shift represents both a change in their industry and beyond. Related Stories. While she did dye her hair blonde prior to the pandemic, sh.
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