HairSpiracy brings stylists and cultural enthusiasts together for competitions and panels celebrating the art of Black hair in Portland.

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, who were foundational to the Whitney’s founding in 1930, by presenting a new ...

Black hair has always been a target — discriminated against in classrooms, policed as unprofessional in the office, condemned ...

Black women around the world spend hours at a time getting synthetic braids but are wondering if the convenience and fashion benefits are outweighed by potential health hazards. The question ...

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

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

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

In The Trouble of Color, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family ...

She started doing it, she says, “one, to preserve my hair, and two, to enforce an acceptance of Black hair in the shows. I would go backstage and there would be signs saying, ‘Don’t touch ...

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 ...

Credit: Courtesy photo Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the ... as part of a long through-line in American history of a kind of racial backlash,a reaction ...