The Hulu series The Other Black Girl dramatizes the pains of managing Afro-textured hair—and other people’s perceptions of it.

At-home Afro hair care had become much more than just a form of experimentation for me and rather a way to strictly enforce control over my hair and, in some ways, my life.

Mel B says she was told to straighten her hair for the video of Wannabe - The Spice Girls' break-out hit - because her "big hair didn't fit the pop star mould". But the 49-year-old star said she ...

I started questioning it all in high school. I was 14 or 15 reading “Race Matters,” by Cornel West, which is not a book a teen is usually picking up, but I remember reading the first few pages ...

Willie Lee Morrow, a son of Alabama sharecroppers who built a business empire around hair care products aimed at African American consumers, among them a comb designed to work with the natural ...