Journalist and Reclama founder Cindy Rodriguez pens a personal essay about how embracing Indigenous braids has helped her reconnect with her identity.

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The cost of a box of 100 packs of braiding hair from China went up for the first time in two years, from $250 to $300, Keita said. They order weekly, often multiple boxes.

A braider at Eve's African Braiding in College Park, Ga., feeds in synthetic braiding hair while styling client Sadajah Herring's hair into knotless braids, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

“To me, hair is an extension of one’s personality. In African history, braids were more than fashion — they were symbols of resistance, identity, and even communication during the era of ...

A new production of the Tony Award-winning play, "Jaja's African Hair Braiding," a group of West African immigrants are creating community with mini masterpieces in Boston.

For many Black women, the hair salon is a cultural safe space, where stories and secrets help build an intimate community. That’s the setting of the 90-minute Tony Award-winning play “Jaja’s African ...

And when it comes to the humble Harlem hair salon in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, now in its New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage in the Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the ...

When the metal grill-like curtain parted in the Roberts Studio Theatre, we not only entered "Jaja’s African Hair Braiding" salon in Harlem, we stepped into the hilarious, but complicated lives ...

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"Hair braiding was actually used as road maps," Golden said. "So back in slavery, what they used to do is braid different designs of ways for them to be free or we talk about marital status, what ...