TSR STAFF: Christina C! @cdelafresh ___ #TSRExclusive: If you were to type in “Unprofessional Hairstyles” for women or for men into the Google Images search bar right now, most of the pics the search turns up will be of Black people. ___ These screen grabs of these searches have surfaced during a time of awareness about Black lives and systemic racism, the very same system that has punished black people for their hair. And this isn’t the first time Google has been called out for this issue. The company came under fire for the same reason back in 2016 so people are questioning why the company is still having the same problem four years later. ___ Google spoke exclusively to us to explain these image results, which are usually linked to articles that are actually denouncing the biases that black men and women face when it comes to their hair and society’s idea of what professional hair is supposed to look like. ___ “Our Google Images search systems rely on a number of factors, including word matching, to surface results,” Cathy Edwards, VP of Google Images, tells us. “For many of the results, the words ‘unprofessional hairstyles’ appear in the articles, and many of these stories are rightly denouncing the-read more at TheShadeRoom.com. (📸: Google Images) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTwRkJpxG4/?igshid=14f2cplb16ys6