THE CLAIM: Black hair does not grow easily. “Good hair” or looser curl patterns are special because they can grow more in length. During the five-year process it took to prepare her second album, SZA ...

Historically, beauty standards have favored straight hair and stigmatized textured hair as being unprofessional or messy. But in many Black and brown communities, hair has a cultural significance with ...

When Cynthia Collazo Pacheco was a 5-year-old girl growing up in Puerto Rico, she begged for a perm. After being called names like “monkey” in school, she’d come to think of her natural Afro-textured ...

An excerpt on identity, hope, and glory from My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration and Tips to Love and Care for Your Crown. In Chad, the women say God left a gift in the mountains to make their hair ...

For a Black woman, her hair can be her crowning glory, an expression of pride in her appearance. But it can also be something more, something deeper — something rooted in culture and a complicated ...

A woman has gone viral after turning her afro into a Christmas tree decorated with tinsel, fairy lights and baubles. Justice ...

*Black women’s hairstyles are at the center of criticism from a white TikToker who calls herself an “elegance and etiquette coach.” In a video that has since been deleted, amira.bessette said ...

Jessica “Jess” L. Martinez, a woman from New York, has set a new Guinness World Record for the largest afro on a living person (female). Her impressive afro measured 29 cm (11.42 in) tall, 31 cm (12.2 ...

The braided hairstyles many Black women and children wear are popular for their beauty and ease of maintenance. But a consumer watchdog’s laboratory analysis has found that the synthetic hair ...