At the helm of it all is Naeemah LaFond—a Brooklyn-born and raised hairstylist, educator, and textured hair advocate dedicated to shifting the industry’s approach to Black hair. Yet, ...

Emma told us what black hair meant in Pre-Colonial Africa - before the Slave Trade. Afro hair has a very unique texture, and for centuries it has had social significance too. Touching someone’s ...

We've succeeded. For Black hair, that hadn't happened. My part in this research is defining those targets. So the three targets that I defined to say, OK, these are essential features of Afro-textured ...

For many Black women, braiding hair isn’t just a protective style—it’s a cultural tradition, a form of self-expression, and in many cases, a necessary solution for managing textured hair.

The Unilever-owned brand wants four textured and protective hair styles added to Unicode, including braids, so Black people ‘see themselves reflected in digital spaces’ ...