As a kid, John wasn’t allowed to grow out his hair. “My parents didn't want me to have long hair because, [in] their culture, that meant something negative,” he says. “Basically, you were a certain ...

At one point or another, a black man needs to go through his dreadlocks period. The best time for that period is college, or from ages 18 to 28. True, there are black men with dreadlocks in their 60s, ...