NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair.

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To say the Black experience is multifaceted would be an understatement. For nearly 500 years, the global African diaspora has blended West and Central African foods, religions, and practices with ...

Promise. I don’t know about you, but the moment the sun comes out and the weather warms up, I feel an irresistible urge to chop off my dry, winter-worn hair, commit to a fresh new cut ...

Enter: chocolate ganache hair color, a luxuriously rich, dark, and glossy hue that looks glamorous, expensive, and (most ...

Hair masks are a fix-all for unhappy hair. If conditioner is akin to your lightweight body lotions, hair masks are more of a body butter, explains Ash Therese, master stylist at the Bird House salon.

I have fine hair, and it’s hard not to burn with envy when a friend tells me they only have to wash their hair “once a week or so.” As my hair shows oil very obviously (after the gym ...