For Black women, the process of maintaining their hair can be fraught. To tame texture or curls, many women spend long hours in a stylist’s chair or subject their hair to harsh chemical relaxers to ...

Three autistic African American women entrepreneurs from Atlanta are shattering barriers and making history with their thriving natural hair salon and beauty school, Aaliyah Beauty Bar Three autistic ...

From the larger-than-life Afros of the 1970s to the finger waves and French rolls of the 1990s, Black natural hair movements have had many iterations. And over the last decade and a half, the modern ...

Malaika Tamu-Cooper, founder of Dreadz N Headz Salon, is placing natural hair, community healing and cultural pride at the center of Black Follicles Matter, an event hosted in partnership with the ...

On July 3, 2019, the first CROWN Act legislation was signed in California to “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.” Now, six years later, on National Crown Day, Black women around the ...

Caring for curly or coily hair can feel like a part-time job—just ask Adria Marshall. For years, Marshall combed every drugstore aisle, looking for products that were kind to her natural curls and the ...