The survey also shows that African American women go to hair salons the most frequently, with six percent of Black women going to a hair salon once a week – double the consumer average.

"African-American hair isn't just very kinky, coarse texture," says LaVar, who has worked with celebrities including Angela Bassett, Naomi Campbell, Iman, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, and Oprah.

Blue Magic is a popular African American hair product that was used mainly in the 70’s. Today it is the name of a new black hair art exhibit put on by the Multicultural Center at the U of A.

Chunky braids are fashionable for African-American hair due to their thicker structure. There are various ways to switch up the style from plaiting it down the back to styling it into a classic ...

From movement to multi-billion industry. The natural hair movement, which gained significant momentum in the early 2000s, encouraged African American women to abandon chemical relaxers and embrace ...

African Americans, especially women, once widely used chemicals to straighten and alter the texture of their hair to gain social acceptance and even employment.

But African American hair braiding styles stood — and still stand — as a direct challenge to those outdated norms. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black is Beautiful movement sparked a renaissance ...

The history of Black hair goes far beyond aesthetics — it tells a powerful story of resistance, identity and cultural preservation. African civilizations used intricate braiding as a form of ...

But “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” the 90-minute Broadway play by the Ghanaian-American writer Jocelyn Bioh, has one big advantage over the others in the genre.