In 1996, Dawes became the first Black person to win an individual Olympic medal in gymnastics. However, while in Atlanta, the 19-year-old was criticized for her hair being “askew.” ...

the Baby Driver actress swapped out her honey blonde ombre in favor of the complete opposite color on the spectrum—and she looked unrecognizable. The British star had fans doing a double take as she ...

Black women's hair is intentional, and limitless, and historical, and influential, and deeply political in a world often incapable of recognizing the depths of its wonder.

After hearing many horror stories from Black fashion models about hairstylists backstage or on photo shoot sets not adequately trained to work with their hair type, the hairstylist — who’s ...

Beauty is not pain “Good Hair,” a documentary by Chris Rock exploring the focus on hair in Black culture, allowed Green to see other Black women’s natural hair journeys, and it influenced ...

“She has a lot going on. If it works for us [Black people], it will work for everybody. Our textures and our hair are different, but it’s all the same in the end. You just want healthy hair.

Early on during college, for example, Giselle-Godsey thought her hair had to be long. "There's this social stigma that Black women don't grow long hair," she says. "As a Black trans woman, you get ...