Reporter: Anaya Ray

SLUG: YOUR HAIR, YOUR CROWN

ANCHOR INTRO HAIR IS A HUGE AND SIGNIFICANT

REPRESENTATION FOR MANY
CULTURES, SPECIFICALLY AFRICAN
AMERICAN WOMEN. HOWARD
UNIVERSITY NEWSVISION’S ANAYA
RAY HAS MORE ON THE LADY
SHAPING CROWNS AROUND D.C.

VO CORNROWS AND COMPANY IS A HAIR

Wide shot of hair salon name SALON, OWNED BY PAMELA FERRELL,
:04 WHO WAS INSPIRED IN AN
VO
UNCONVENTIONAL WAY TO GIVE
Tight shots of hair salon products
:04 BLACK WOMEN VERSATILE WAYS TO
WEAR THEIR NATURAL HAIR.

“When I was 18 years old I was fired from

SOT my job because of my braided hairstyle and
Name: Pamela Ferrell so I declared that I was going to braid so
Title: Cornrows & Co.
many heads that this would never happen
Time: 0:08
again.”

VO FERRELL FACED MANY CHALLENGES

Shot of Ferrell working WHILE OPENING HER OWN HAIR
:03 BRAIDING SALON.

“When we opened our salon in 1980 we got a

Name: Pamela Ferrell
phone call from the D.C. Regulatory Agency
Title: Cornrows & Co.
Time: 0:06 telling us we had to close our business
because we didn't have a cosmetology
license.”

FOR YEARS AFRICAN AMERICAN

VO WOMEN HAVE BEEN JUDGED AND
Shots of hairstylist doing braiding hair DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE
:07 OF THEIR NATURAL HAIR. JUST
RECENTLY NBC NEWS REPORTED
THAT NEW YORK CITY HAS PASSED A
 LAW BANNING DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST NATURAL HAIR.

Name: Pamela Ferrell “So what Cornrows and Co. really tried to fill
Title: Cornrows & Co. is the gap of not having a what I call a healing
Time: 0:10 space for women. Somewhere where women
can go and not be judged.”

VO MANY AGREE ONE’S HAIR IS THEIR

Shots of hairstylist flat ironing hair STATEMENT AND A WAY OF
:03 SHOWCASING WHO THEY ARE.

Name: Robin Akinwale “You can wear it straight you can wear your
Title: Natural hair wearer hair curly you can wear your hair in braids,
Time: 0:06 just the versatility of the hair.”

Name: Allison Seymour “I think we’ve always expressed ourselves

Title: WTTG Fox 5 Anchor through our hair… I think that when you take
Time: 0:08
pride in your hair it really helps you take
VO
Clips of black hairstyle photos in hair pride in a lot strangely as black women. Like
salon we take pride in our shape, our swag, and our
:05 hair.”

STAND UP WHETHER NATURAL, OR EXTENSIONS,

OR BRAIDS, BLACK WOMEN HAVE
DEFIED WHAT IT MEANS TO BE
VERSATILE AND WITH STYLISTS LIKE
FERRELL BLACK WOMEN CAN
CONTINUE TO TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR
CROWN.
FOR HOWARD UNIVERSITY
NEWSVISION I AM ANAYA RAY.

ANCHOR TAG FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PAMELA

FERRELL’S CORNROWS AND CO. STOP
BY THE SALON ON 5401 14TH ST NW
 OR VISIT HER WEBSITE
CORNROWSANDCO.COM

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