One of San Antonio’s leading braid artists, she advocates for African American hairstyles all races choose for function and fashion. Mabrie is a living embodiment of her work, favoring shoulder ...

The state requires braiders to earn a cosmetology license, spending 1,700 hours and as much as $20,000. Some Portland-area lawmakers is promising to take up the cause in the 2013 Legislative session.

By banning natural hairstyles, what the school is implicitly advocating is that African-American kids chemically process their hair so that it resembles white hair and is then within the rules of ...