Few things demonstrate the beauty and versatility of Blackness better than Black hair. The variety of styles is almost innumerable: locs, cornrows, curls, afros, twists, braids, and beyond. Many Black ...

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...

There are very few Black women over the age of 40 who have not used relaxers to straighten their hair, which isn’t to say, of course, that Black women and girls far younger than that haven’t used them ...