A neat and gentle knotless braid style ideal for kids—comfortable and cute for any occasion.

Strider Patton, who runs the popular @Dad.Braids Instagram account, is one of the many fathers who are taking on hairstyling ...

As an heiress and accomplished marketer of Madam C.J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, A’Lelia Walker hosted rising stars of ...

Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and braids.

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Art schools usually encourage students to be original by exploring their identity in their art, but this doesn’t apply for black kids,” she says. “Better to be black in a country you’re not born in” ...

Each winter (in January or February), the Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an ...

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