In this personal essay, PS Juntos director Johanna Ferreira shares her journey of getting blond highlights as a brown-skinned Afro-Latina.

Black women face an additional obstacle: haircare. Writer Brenda Patrick has been exploring ways to get around the sweaty difficulties of exercising with afro hair. When I started my own fitness ...

A 2023 Workplace Hair Acceptance Report by World Afro Day found that 84% of respondents considered straight hair on women appropriate in all circumstances, while 64% felt that an Afrocentric ...

For too many years, black men and women have been told their natural afro hair is unkempt, excessive, and unprofessional. It has led to black people going to extreme lengths just to be accepted. " ...

Hair loss isn’t as rare as many believe it to be, and it’s not reserved solely for the elderly. You can start experiencing it ...

and are affordably sold in Afro hair shops for at-home use. Relaxing your hair at home using a store-bought kit may sound quite outrageous, but for many black women, including myself, throwing on ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair.

We have just celebrated International Women's Day, and are heading straight to the Melbourne Women in Film Festival next week ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In honor of Black History Month, 10TV wanted to speak with a roundtable of Black women in the community ... that improves outcomes for African American girls and their families." ...