This story set in a hair salon allows us to meet a wide variety of characters, all well-cast here on Navy Pier.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a celebration of Black hair and salons, a kind of sanctuary for Black women where societal ...
For about 75 minutes of its 90-minute running time, “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” comes across as a vivaciously amusing ...
Tony-winning play, now at Chicago Shakespeare, builds empathy for salon artists making their way in America by helping women ...
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Four suspects are on the run after robbing two women on the Pedway between the Red and Blue Line trains on Friday night in ...
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding opened on Broadway in 2023 with a run that extended twice. Ghanaian American playwright ... highlighting the unique beauty of Black hair. “Chicago is my community ...
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a protege of Auguste Rodin and shaped the Harlem Renaissance. The African American Museum in ...
As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...
The cowrie shells have been long revered in Black and African cultures, symbolizing community, protection, resistance, and ...
Dr. Rebecca J. Cole made history as the second African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
As a professor of African American ... scholars have long debunked race as reducible to biological markers, such as skin tone ...