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

Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

Black actress like Vivica A. Fox, Gabrielle Union and Tiffany Haddish discuss their experiences in the hair and makeup chair ...

Black women around the world gather in salons, dorm rooms and living rooms for hours at a time to get synthetic braids put in ...

Hair breakage refers to hair that snaps or fractures along a weakened hair shaft (the visible length of a strand). Learn how ...

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 ...

PsychoHairapy trains beauty professionals to use hair as a gateway to mental health, turning salons into spaces for healing and emotional support.

TV and Black Girl Rising, Inc. convened a roundtable of Black women to discuss the complex relationship between hair, culture ...

One of Gilmer's papers examined the math behind African-American hairstyles. It was, Jones said, a transformative lesson: One ...

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 ...

Only later did Longone discover, through research and archival work, that it was the first known cookbook written by an African-American woman. It's an important part of Black history and culinary ...