Movie about Armstrong's fight for hair braiding to debut Friday

TUPELO – A movie about Melony Armstrong, who battled more than 20 years to get the restrictions lifted on hair braiding, debuts Friday on several platforms.

"Freedom Hair" centers on Tupelo entrepreneur and hair braider Armstrong, who finally got the Mississippi Legislature to lift what were at the time a host of restrictive regulations for those who wanted to braid hair. That bill, passed in 2005, eased the restrictions on teaching hair braiding.