The SpeakEasy Stage's production of the Tony Award-winning play centers hair braiders and their lives over one day in the ...

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At SpeakEasy Stage, playwright Jocelyn Bioh shares the hilarious and complicated lives of the women who work in the salon, ...

From boho and cornrows to sculptural wonders, celebrities are turning to braided styles and reshaping the beauty standards in ...

In the case of Jocelyn Bioh’s “ Jaja’s African Hair Braiding ,” which takes place in a Harlem salon on a scorching summer day ...

A handful of states still make traditional braiders get unnecessary schooling before they are allowed to work, but those ...

Latine Hair Braiding Grounds Us in Nature Melendez says that nature ... With a hunger for tradition, she longed to learn more about the West African and Taino cultures that influenced her Puerto Rican ...

Tempest Golden, assistant campus director at Tricoci University of Beauty Culture, joined 13News to share about the history of African hair braiding. "Hair braiding was actually used as road maps," ...

Since some African women's hair cannot grow past a certain length, the Afro kinky braids enable them to wear hairstyles resembling curly natural hair. A large-sized kinky ponytail with a side part can ...