For the African diaspora, there are many things to celebrate; our hairstyles serve as a crowning glory rooted in culture. Around the world, Black hair is an expression of history and art. Colombia’s ...

Ziomara Asprilla Garcia remembers the click, click, click of her mother’s hands quickly braiding strands of hair and twisting them into neat rows under a mango tree in Colombia. Click, click, click in ...

Count Me In is a multi-part series that focuses on making visible the thriving natural hair movement among Afro-descended Costa Ricans within the context of the larger natural hair revolution ...

For black women, stereotypes associated with Afros can’t be shed, but their appeal is a nod to history and tradition When I cut my hair last summer, I sheared 12 inches of chemically straightened hair ...

Heads up: This is a fictional narrative aiming to answer some FAQs about braids in a fun, experimental and hopefully educational way! As I get ready to bike to my 9:30 a.m. class, my hair freshly ...

Thanks to a now industry-wide call to action against the marginalization of Afro hair, words like "coily," "kinky," and "Afro" are now autocorrect mainstays in my work as a beauty writer. The ...

A handful of damaging afro hair myths persist, which makes it difficult for many women to achieve the afro hair they want and deserve. Ahead, we enlisted five fantastic afro haircare specialists to ...

Every day in Louisiana, hair stylists in salons across the state use their fingers to interlace people's hair into twists, knots, cornrows, microbraids and dreadlocks. The natural hairstyles are as ...