Steroids, wigs and disinfectant: Afro alopecia needs research, not ridicule. Hair loss is a particular social stigma for black women, and the shame involved is compounded by a worrying lack of ...

No thoughtful person is naive enough to think it’s OK for a white woman to parade around in a big black afro wig, then slip it off when the mood has shifted. Not in this country.

When she needed a wig after chemotherapy as an adult, little had changed, said the 39-year-old, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. "It was awful, they basically said that I couldn't ...