Glamour Magazine has unveiled its September cover story, which is all about the stigmas of Black women’s hair. The…

Texas high schooler Deandre Arnold may not be walking with his graduating class at Barbers Hill High School in Mont…

Toto, I don’t think we’re going to have trouble wearing our naturally textured hair in Kansas anymore—at least, we…

Even in one of The Root’s Blackest Cities in America—black girls can’t wear natural hair for a black-themed musical…

A mere week after presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced legislation that would ban hair…

After successfully passing in California and New York with at least six more states pending, the CROWN Act (Create a…

“Heavy lies the crown,” they say—and for celebrity hairstylist Sally Hershberger, the punishment for the type of…

On a mild-weathered Wednesday evening, I traveled toward Downey, Calif., to visit the Los Angeles County of…

“So, yesterday, I went to school, and I wore my hair in an afro like this...and a lot of people had a lot of mean…

It’s our turn. That’s the message Glamour magazine is giving black women, with the release of its “Women of the Year…

Who’d think wearing a natural hairstyle would be as loaded as legalizing marijuana?