Former NFL player Matthew A. Cherry had been working in Hollywood for nearly a decade as a writer and editor when he was inspired, by viral videos of dads doing their children’s hair, to make a short film about a girl’s relationship with both her curls and her father. As a child, he rarely saw people who looked like him in the cartoons he watched. Even today, he says, “seeing Black fathers being affectionate toward their kids is an anomaly.” The result is头发的爱这是一部长达七分钟的电影，赢得了2020年的奥斯卡最佳动画短片。在发起了一项最初目标75,000美元的Kickstarter运动之后，他筹集了近四倍，这使他能够为头发的爱儿童读物，成为畅销书。发行头发的爱，2019年8月 - 之前愤怒的小鸟2在全国成千上万的剧院（现在在YouTube上），这是在几个州的王室法案中通过的，禁止对学校和工作场所的自然发型进行歧视。最近与华纳兄弟电视台（Warner Bros. TV）签署了一项开发协议的樱桃（Cherry）利用他的奥斯卡（Oscar）接受演讲来倡导这一行为。他说：“如果有机会通过立法，那是我们孩子将不得不应对的负担。”在电影获胜后的几周内，又有三个州介绍了该法案。樱桃现在正在继续头发的爱角色在新动画系列中的故事，年轻的爱，将出现在HBO Max上。
