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A new study from BLK’s #FreeYourCrown campaign highlights how women embracing curls, coils, and confidence like never before.
The connection between the Black hair experience and mental health has always been clear. But now, we've found a powerful way ...
The city’s recently opened French Kat Atelier teaches the craft to students ranging from age 7 through adulthood.
For generations, the women of Gee’s Bend have stitched together scraps of fabric into something far more lasting than cloth ...
While dealing with her addiction, Williams also worked with R&B singer Anita Baker, who she met through a friend of Brenda ...
Clients and hair stylists are equally frustrated with the current state of the Black salon experience. Can community survive in a new landscape?
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.
The Midwest Underground Railroad Network and Chicago Association of African American Storytellers are presenting freedom ...
A Marriage at Sea” tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost ...
Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865,” tells stories from a variety of perspectives — personal, community and family.
Black hairstylists and their clients are bracing for price hikes and supply shortages after the Trump administration announced new tariffs on imported Chinese goods—including the synthetic and human ...