For years, Black women have used synthetic braids to help style their hair. But a recent study by Consumer Reports found that ...

This week on Shop Essence Live in Partnership with The New Voices Family, we feature Bobeam (Bow-bee-um) Natural Products which offers affordable natural products for both hair and body that […] ...

Mariah Forde, or Mariah Celeste as she goes by on YouTube, will tell you just how important appearance is when appearing on ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

Dezeen Showroom: as part of its Terrae tile collection, Italian brand Casalgrande Padana has released a porcelain stoneware tile rendered in rich, dark amber tones. Inspired by hues found in ...

Brenda Song with pretty balayage hair color.

The natural blending from a darker root looks like the result of a perfectly executed balayage. Vanessa Hudgens's signature dark hair is lightened here with caramel brunette pieces, creating a ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural significance, telling stories of survival, status and self-expression. What may ...

Thirteen students from Houston-area high schools participated in the inaugural Emerge Leadership Academy (ELA), a summer program hosted by the University of Houston Department of African American ...

The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” – where a sizable majority of people in the US could become or aspire to become middle-class, affluent or even extremely wealthy – is mostly ...

The small African nation has some of the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in the world. Harry spoke passionately in 2020 about being “struck by the hardship and challenges so many children faced ...