You have to admit, a good story is a good story — although Khadijah VanBrakle never set out to become a writer.

These good uses for single socks will give purpose to those lonely orphan socks you've been accumulating for years Creative ...

It is 10.02am on a hazy Sunday morning in June, and a packed room of eager faces stares intently at the crime expert in front ...

Now on stage at La Jolla Playhouse is the play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" by New York-based playwright Jocelyn Bioh. The play opened on Broadway in 2023, and was nominated for six Tony Awards ...

For many Black women, the hair salon is a cultural safe space, where stories and secrets help build an intimate community. That’s the setting of the 90-minute Tony Award-winning play “Jaja’s African ...

From movement to multi-billion industry The natural hair movement, which gained significant momentum in the early 2000s, encouraged African American women to abandon chemical relaxers and embrace ...

A new book will focus on South Carolina's first African American female physician. Authors Dr. Walter B. Curry, Beverly Aiken-Muhammad and Anusha Ghosh present the narrative of Dr. Matilda Evans ...

But African American hair braiding styles stood — and still stand — as a direct challenge to those outdated norms. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black is Beautiful movement sparked a renaissance ...

For the first time in its nearly 30-year history, the African American Cultural and Historical Museum is opening to the public. It was previously open by appointment only, but that is changing ...

Shawni Wright participates in “Black Hair, a Conversation with a Black Hairstylist” at Dr. Roberto Cruz Alum Rock library in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Maxwell Alexander/Mosaic) ...

“We started in the 80s, officially, 85′. So it’s been 40 years plus of doing hair, and we’re (Detroit) the hair capital of the world,” Humphries said. “We’ve been traveling around the country teaching ...