Protective styles are the most popular for long-lasting hairstyles for black hair. They not only reduce breakage and ...

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 ...

One common myth is that there is just one type of Black hair, New York stylist Ellin LaVar says. "African-American hair isn't just very kinky, coarse texture," says LaVar, who has worked with ...

Braiding traditions across the African diaspora both predate and defy the colonial confines set forth to erase and subjugate ...

The history of Black hair goes far beyond ... and cultural preservation. African civilizations used intricate braiding as a form of cultural expression and identity long before the transatlantic ...

"The standard of beauty was long ... watch me pick out my hair. She was fascinated with my Afro. I just never understood the fascination with hair." Black history is American history: DeSantis ...

Most studies of Black hair focus on the experiences of African American women ... and many of them have natural hair styles that are long. When my son made the decision to grow locs, it wasn ...

The survey also shows that African American women go to hair salons the most frequently, with six percent of Black women going to a hair salon once a week – double the consumer average.