Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the African diaspora, there are many things to celebrate; our hairstyles serve as a crowning glory rooted in culture. Around ...

The start of a new year often arrives with a quiet urge to reset, refresh, and show up a little differently. For many women, that shift begins with hair. Short natural afro hairstyles are stepping ...

Close-Up Of Happy Woman Holding Hair Against Wall During Sunny Day – stock photo / Getty *Oakland-based artist and UC Santa Cruz assistant professor A.M. Darke is building a team of creatives who want ...

Jessica L. Martinez's hair measures 11.42 inches tall, 12.2 inches wide and 6 feet, 2.87 inches in circumference She told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, "The things that make us different and ...

Stigmatisms of Afro hair has been rife across media for decades. The misrepresentation and mischaracterisation of Afro hair being perceived as scruffy or unkept - generally from the wider European ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1989 surrealist satire Chameleon Street, two Black men bicker after one says that he prefers women with light skin and “good hair.” After being criticized for the comment, the man makes a ...

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 ...