For Black women, the process of maintaining their hair can be fraught. To tame texture or curls, many women spend long hours in a stylist’s chair or subject their hair to harsh chemical relaxers to ...

Over the past few decades, the approvals and intricacies surrounding hair care have historically prioritized looser, finer, and thinner strands. Alongside the societal script that regarded curlier, ...

Osahon Ojeaga considers herself more eco-conscious than the average person. But up until 2019, she’d never considered the impact of her hair on the environment. The Black hair care industry is valued ...

Now that an investigative documentary – Black Hair, directed by Aron Ranen – has been produced about the black hair care industry, shocking black people once again, maybe some of us will resolve to do ...

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Henrietta Gabriel. She speaks on the experience that comes with her hair. (Alexandria Byrd) Black students at BYU are sharing the struggle of finding sustainable hair care in a predominantly white ...

“I was having wash day with my kids, and I was looking at their hair,” the photographer Tomesha Faxio, a mother of two daughters, explained to CNN in a video call of her new monograph. “I was just ...

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