This Black History Month, the Banner is teaming up with WriteBoston’s Teens In Print program, highlighting young voices of ...

From Feb. 24 to Feb. 28, CROWN Act Spirit Week in Durham schools is celebrated with events and a hair-products donation drive that encourages students, staff and community members to wear their hair ...

From the creation of relaxers to the Jheri curl, to Afros and the natural hair movement ... school board chair last March. “Black people and white people alike did not like that my hair was ...

Fulani braids have a history that dates back to ancient Egypt. In modern times, the hairstyle is considered a symbolic of a ...

It’s also where, in February 1953, he created a product that would lead to the founding of Johnson Products Company, a multimillion-dollar hair care company that defined a generation of waves, afros ...

The Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 initiated a number of community programs aimed at addressing issues faced by Black ...

People power. A grammatically awkward term but one which still inspires some pride of the time when Filipinos stood up after years of martial law and, the final blow—patently fraudulent elections.

People crossed unofficial, invisible borders between Black and white neighborhoods, causing chaos on both sides. When World War II ended in 1945, previous generations of migrants had finally built ...