Long before African American hair braiding styles reached beauty salons ... years of racial segregation that followed. In times when Black identity was mocked or forced into assimilation, braids ...

Aguh also addressed the challenge of balancing cultural hair styling practices with hair health in Black women ... I find that within the African American community, in the African diaspora ...

The supermodel, who was born in Cairo, Egypt, took a long road to get to where ... to preserve my hair, and two, to enforce an acceptance of Black hair in the shows. I would go backstage and ...

A recent National Institutes of Health study found that women who use chemical hair straighteners more than four times a year face an increased risk of uterine cancer, with Black women most affected.