Cue Carrie Bradshaw voice: if blonde hair is so entangled with whiteness in the cultural imagination, what happens when a ...

In a world that tells Black women when to smile, how to dress and how to wear our hair, these women are making bold ...

The beauty industry's fastest-growing segment carries a warning: DIY eyelashes, popular among Black women, risk permanent eye ...

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On a recent episode of Sister Talk featured on On Point with Juandolyn Stokes, guest host DJ Ms. Eclectic welcomed Dana Bly, ...

Today the black hair product business is a billion-dollar industry, fueled by black women's desire to keep their tresses looking good. But hair in black America is not just about aesthetics.

La Jolla Playhouse recently opened a production of Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-winning play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." Set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, the story explores love, family, ...

Black hair care companies have played a vital role in the culture's trajectory. Among them, there have been cult standouts that reflect the shifts in beauty standards. They have been a staple on our ...

From nearly all angles, this sounds like a life that was off to a rough start. And it was for Sarah Breedlove aka Madam C.J. Walker, but more often than not, necessity is the mother of invention.

Cancer treatment is equally successful for all races. Yet Black men have a 40% higher cancer death rate than white men. African American women have a 20% higher cancer death rate than white women.

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