Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals alopecia diagnosis and bald head in powerful video

On Thursday, in a powerful video for the Root, Rep. Ayanna Pressley revealed she has alopecia, an autoimmune disorder characterized by hair loss.  "I am ready now because I want to be freed from the secret and the shame that that secret carries with it, and because I'm not here just to occupy space. I'm here to create it," Pressley explains in the video.   Last fall, during a hair appointment, Pressley explains she learned she had bald patches. From that point on, it accelerated.  "I'd been waking up every morning to sinkfuls of hair," Pressley says in the video. "Every night I was employing all the tools that I had been schooled and trained in throughout my life as a black woman because I thought that I could stop this."  Read more...More about Social Good, Black Hair, Alopecia, Ayanna Pressley, and Social Good