African women have been manipulating their natural hair from time immemorial with different hairstyles that are now adapted to modern hairstyles. In many indigenous cultures, a person’s hair is ...

Heat damage has to be a naturalista’s greatest fear — besides breakage, of course. If you have tight or kinky curls, you’ve probably relied on a blow dryer, diffuser or flat iron to retain length or ...

The U.S. Army’s new ban on many types of ethnic hairstyles has African-American women who wear their coifs in dreadlocks, braids and cornrows in a twist. The Army’s regulations stipulate such guidance ...

Black hair is a touchy subject tied to beauty, identity and politics. Whether it’s Afros and black power or cornrows and hip-hop, hairstyles associated with African-American culture can make a ...

An African-American high school student in Texas has served more than two weeks of in-school suspensions for wearing twisted dreadlocks to school. When he arrived Monday with the same hairstyle, he ...