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Fried, Dyed and Laid to the Side: Hazardous Hair Products Are Being Marketed to Black Women
From deep conditioners, to relaxers and gels, on any given day black women put tons of products in our hair. We don’t…
In Your Lifetime, How Many Different People Have Cut and/or Done Your Hair?
It started with a pre-Thanksgiving conversation about how sensitive we (black men) are with our hair, a discussion…
Education, Not Discrimination: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Asks Florida Schools to End Biased Hair Policies
As children returned to school this fall, new teachers and classmates weren’t the only things that greeted some…
Watch: Nappily Ever After's Sanaa Lathan Says You Don't Need Marriage to Be Complete
Sanaa Lathan broke the internet when she revealed her big chop last September. Lathan, who has dazzled the big screen…
Watch: Amara La Negra Shares Her Natural Hair Journey
Amara La Negra is a proud Afro-Latina who “embraces her truth.” For La Negra this means that rocking her hair in its…
Creating Trends, One Tress at a Time: How Ursula Stephen Does NYFW
We love seeing the results of celebrity hairstylist Ursula Stephen’s work, so when we were invited backstage to watch…
Celebrating the Natural Hair Journey: Behind the Scenes at Texture on the Runway
New York Fashion Week is well under way, and models with various textures of hair sashayed down the runway to…
Stranger Danger: Random White Woman Narrowly Avoids Catching Hands After Touching Black Woman’s Hair
Here’s the problem with growing up in a world that tells you you’re entitled to everything (even owning and colonizing…
Loc’ed Out: In Jamaica, a Battle for Equality Rests on a 5-Year-Old Girl’s Head
Come January, Jamaica’s highest court will hear the case of “Z,” a little girl with dreadlocks who was told she…
New Licensing Requirements for New Jersey Braiders Remain Tangled in Legislation
Looks like it’s one step forward, one step back for New Jersey braid practitioners, as legislation introduced to…
Splitting Hairs: Celeb Hairstylists Kim Kimble and Tokyo Stylez Sparked a Shady Debate Over Legitimacy
One is a legend in the hair game and the other is steadily making a name for himself creating of-the-moment looks for…
Non-Compliant: The War Against Black Students' Hairstyles Continues
When it comes to finding low-maintenance hairstyles for our children that are school-appropriate, it’s beginning to…
The Dress Code Is Discrimination? First Grader Denied His First Day of School for Dreadlocks
Imagine this: You escort your son to his first day of first grade, all buttoned up in his brand new uniform and eager…
Bundles or a Bag of Chips? Would You Buy Hair from a Weave Vending Machine?
We don’t know if this is pure genius or just plain hilarious, but apparently there’s a niche market for weave-related…
International I Love Braids Day Brings Black Self Love to Brooklyn
Debra Hare-Bey is a proud and self-proclaimed “braider”—by trade and tradition.
Naturally Beautiful: The Best of CurlFest 2018
What happens when 25,000 natural hair aficionados get together? CurlFest, that’s what! On Saturday, July 21,…
Fake or Drake? Why an Awkward IG Post Had Folks Ready to Pull Drake's #BeardGang Card
Is Papi really champagne, or prosecco? That’s the question folks were asking after catching a glimpse of an Instagram…
Winner's Circle: Serena Williams Scores Natural Hair Products at Target—Just Like Us!
Picture this: You’re cruising the natural haircare aisle at Target, marveling at the selection, when you run into ...…