One of the individuals in the video is heard saying “you’ve never seen natural Black hair?” Aside from the sanitary concerns that come with people touching your hair, the act of touching a ...

Black people have a fraught and painful history with hair. In particular, black women with textured, tightly curled or kinky hair have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money torturing it into ...

"They labelled the hair as fur or wool as a way to associate black [people] with animals, [using this as a] rationale as to why they should be treated as slaves." As a result, enslaved people only ...

“It is a statement of pride.” Exactly 30 years later, Black people are still having a “Hair-Razing Experience” (the name of the episode) when it comes to how they choose to wear their hair ...

It is the most heavily policed type of hair and continues to be one of the ways in which Black people, particularly women, still suffer prejudice today with serious consequences. Hair ...

It was made clear for centuries that the straighter a Black person’s hair, the more attractive ... until the ’80s with the rise of chemical texturizers, known more commonly as Jheri Curls.