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Amara La Negra shares her journey of embracing her natural hair and her thoughts on the policing of Black women's hair.
The average U.S. adult uses about 12 personal care products a day, resulting in exposure to an average of 168 unique chemicals.
The festival gathered community, culture, and commerce under one roof—reminding us hair has always been more than just hair.
Today, the divide in hair among Black women is still present and is evident in how they’re treated in the workforce based on their hair -- a layer of discrimination facing Black women dubbed as ...
Federal lawmakers on Wednesday introduced four bills aimed at banning or regulating dangerous chemicals in hair and beauty ...
Angle Bush, founder of Black Women in Artificial Intelligence, is developing a robot to handle hair braiding needs with speed ...
For Black women, hair is always a journey — from experimenting with different styles to dealing with stereotypes of Black hair. And for Black transgender women, hair takes on a whole new meaning ...
As Black women, having unruly and — for a long time — natural hair, was considered unkept, dirty and unprofessional. So for so many years, we were sitting here thinking, ‘Damn, I need a perm.
Their discussion is part of The Hair Tales, a series that takes an honest, layered look into the sometimes tangled roots of Black hair culture and the role it plays in female identity.
“When Black women’s hair features as the butt of jokes, the very real and myriad forms of multiple marginalization against Black women is erased and even justified,” Joseph noted.
ATLANTA (AP) — Black women around the world gather in salons, dorm rooms and living rooms for hours at a time to get synthetic braids put in their hair. But they’re wondering if the convenience and ...