Welcome to It’s Textured, a column where we untangle the joy, trauma, confusion, and frustration that can come with Black ...

Young girls at the Phenomenal Tresses Summer Beauty Camp in Tallahassee spent Juneteenth learning more than just hair ...

Braiding traditions across the African diaspora both predate and defy the colonial confines set forth to erase and subjugate ...

Mel B, who is supporting World Afro Day, says her "big, wild, curly hair" got her into scrapes as a kid. She was told to straighten her hair when she became Scary Spice, but she ignored the advice ...

Natural hair care founder Nicole Schuler is set to host the inaugural Hair Education and Beauty Summit (HEBS) on July 7-8 at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, N.J. The two-day event ...

MCN is inspired by my own experiences of being an African American girl in a suburban, predominantly white school district for the first 18 years of my life. As a child, I grappled with a sense of ...

Lakisha May, seated with hand mirror, and Nana Mensah, looking into wall mirror, in “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. (Matthew ...

The Hulu series The Other Black Girl dramatizes the pains of managing Afro-textured hair—and other people’s perceptions of it.

The styles in “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” in previews on Broadway, require a wig designer, several braiders, some synthetic hair and lots of patience.