Reuters is reporting today on a new study providing further evidence linking braids and weaves to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African-American women. Suggested Reading Inside the ...

While it’s fun to switch up your do, be careful which style you choose. A new study found that nearly a quarter of Black women suffer from baldness and scalp scarring, possibly because of hair-yanking ...

Sisters have it hard when it comes to hair. It is one of the things that defines her and shapes her self-image, for better and worse. And it is the the physical attribute that often causes her the ...

Very tight braiding or weaving is linked to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African American women, new research suggests. While the findings can't prove hair grooming is at the root ...

Living in a culture eternally obsessed with braids, extensions and ‘catching up the hair’ so tightly that the temples bulge, we are sometimes not aware that there are consequences, until our hair ...

ASK any black woman about her earliest hair memories, and she’ll more than likely recall incidents where the kinky mass was tugged and pulled by a parent insistent on getting all and every knot out.

Whether you call it a Dutch braid, boxer braids, or a reverse braid, this style of braiding can be challenging. Unlike a French braid, which is your traditional three-strand braid, a Dutch braid ...

Officials with Riverside Academy in Reserve are apologizing after a letter sent to parents mistakenly said braids were prohibited during the school year. The letter was sent to parents on July 22, ...