As an organization instituted for the empowerment of two-blooded Africana Pasifika and/or Melanesian peoples and the opportunity for healing between our respective communities, BPA centers the afro pick as its logo foregrounding the wide diversity of cultures, ideologies, and social movements outlined below that have shaped us. 

The moderate design elements of the BPA Afro Pick include additional motifs that signify our acknowledgment of the genealogies, roots and routes that bring us together.   

The double-headed Afro handle, the family tree, and its trunk infused with a rich blood flow into the Pikorua (Maori double twist) are motifs that are legible to Africana and Pasifika diasporas, bonding us to our homelands, our bloodlines, and each other.

Throughout the Pacific and Africa, indigenous forms of combs and hair picks have long been used as a function of grooming, adornment, and identity. Constructed out of natural raw materials gathered from local surroundings like wood, bone, teeth, coconut fibers, turtle shells, and seashells, hair picks beautify the person and adorn the hair as a part of everyday dress. However, in many African and Pasifika societies-- ancient and modern, it can be worn to signal a wearer's group affiliation, social status, religious beliefs, spiritual significance, etc., and is encoded with ritualistic properties.

Artisans of the hair pick took great care in designing the comb by applying various techniques, developing very distinctive styles between cultural groups. The size, shape, and materials they were made from reflected culturally diverse attitudes to hair and hair fashions that have and continue to change over time. They were decorated with colored beadwork, woven plant fibers, shell inlay, carved motifs, painted images, or names of people and places. Others were undecorated, with their aesthetic appeal found in their design, elegance, and crafting of their form.

In recent times, the afro pick is charged with symbolic reference to Black peoples, the Black Power movement, and its historical links to the re-emergence of Afrocentric dress and hairstyles. Central to this aesthetic, the afro hair stylings originally found in Fiji and throughout Melanesia were adopted by African American peoples in the 1960s and onward. The comb has become more than an accessory representative of an era and political affiliation, but a symbol of Black pride and identity.