Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Those Jewish acts were visible and audible statements of their identity. Statements of pride in their own culture that ...

Consumer Reports finds harmful chemicals in popular synthetic hair used for braids and wigs, raising health concerns for ...

Crystal Aguh, MD, FAAD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty, advocates for increased funding and education to address hair loss disparities within the African diaspora, emphasizing the need for ...

"A coworker of mine has beautiful, long, and full sisterlocks. A patient told her that it looked like she had a mop on her ...

When you don’t acknowledge that people are different you get the “interim guidance” announced by the Marines this month that ...

Larry Tiah has watched his southeast Cedar Rapids store, Hela African Food Market, grow. The store features a variety of ...

The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African-Americans ever to serve in an American war. There was a marked turnaround from the attitude in previous wars that black men were not fit for ...

In his quest for perfection, Mari Selvaraj is part of a triumvirate of film directors making Dalit-themed films who have ...

Seven years ago, I wrote a column about an 11-year-old Black girl who was turned away from her Catholic elementary school near New Orleans because she showed up with her hair braided with extensions.