Historically, beauty standards have favored straight hair and stigmatized textured hair as being unprofessional or messy. But in many Black and brown communities, hair has a cultural significance with ...

Mrs Jacquelyn Uchechi, an afro hair enthusiast, has urged women to embrace African natural hair as their identity, for such symbolised “the youthfulness and beauty of woman to a man strength”. Uchechi ...

It is already very difficult to be a Black woman who embraces her natural curls. Now, studies show that there is something called an “Afro-Tax” that those with curls and coils could be facing. An Afro ...

When Cynthia Collazo Pacheco was a 5-year-old girl growing up in Puerto Rico, she begged for a perm. After being called names like “monkey” in school, she’d come to think of her natural Afro-textured ...

The story of the world’s biggest afro is a reminder that beauty isn't a single standard, but a diverse spectrum of expression ...

New research released in conjunction with World Afro Day has found that those with Afro hair are forced to pay more, travel further and wait longer for salon appointments than other hair types, with a ...

Since her days on "Love & Hip Hop: Miami," Amara La Negra has been a powerful advocate for Afro-Latina representation. She has graced numerous TV segments, gone viral on social media, and appeared on ...

As Africans, you’d think that we would be more appreciative of how our hair grows and encourage the young ones to keep it that way but that's not the case. Students are often required to cut their ...

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THE CLAIM: Black hair does not grow easily. “Good hair” or looser curl patterns are special because they can grow more in length. During the five-year process it took to prepare her second album, SZA ...