Meechy Monroe dead: YouTube star famed for natural hair tutorials dies at 32

A YouTuber who rose to fame for urging black women to embrace their natural hair has died at the age of just 32.Meechy Monroe died of brain cancer at a nursing home in Westmont in Illinois on 27 June.Monroe turned her attentions to her locks in 2009 after becoming despondent with marketing jobs and enduring a bad haircut which prompted her to ditch the mane she had been subjecting to perming chemicals from the age of 16.