This Theater Experience Set In A Salon Tells Black Women’s HIV Stories

The project embraces the Black salon not just as a setting, but as a cultural hub and healing space, rooted in a rich legacy ...
CNN

These women are creating blow dry salons for women with textured hair

When it came time for Dana White to name her first salon, her thoughts immediately went to her grandmother. Paralee Boyd was the first generation in her family to not be the help – she used her ...
The New York Times

The Disturbing Truth About Hair Relaxers

They’ve been linked to reproductive disorders and cancers. Why are they still being marketed so aggressively to Black women? A woman at a salon having relaxer applied to her hair.Credit...Naila ...
KERO-TV

Celebrating Black hair of all styles: Local salon owners on what hair means to Black Women

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — In the Black Community, hair is sacred. Two local salon owners say it’s like their crown. “Everything about your life, starts from here,” Fausat Adekoba, owner of Nikki’s ...
PopSugar

The Shady Practice Black Women Are Reporting From Non-Black Salons

For nearly three years now, Raquel Harris, fighter and owner of The Champion Experience, has been getting her hair done by Ashley Jordan, a New York City-based natural hairstylist specializing in silk ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Hair Tales’ Review: A Warm and Earnest Hulu/OWN Docuseries About Black Women and Beauty

Tracee Ellis Ross interviews Oprah Winfrey, Issa Rae, Ayanna Pressley and more about their personal "hair journeys" and the politics and meaning of Black women's hair in a new show from Onyx ...