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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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.

Rise In Male Hair Braiding: Fashion or decline in African values? Once seen as a style reserved for women, braided hairstyles are now redefining masculinity on the streets of Nigeria.

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 ...

Into the slightly cramped quarters comes Jennifer (Hampton Richards), who wants long micro-braids, a process that will take all day and leave the braider with blisters on her fingers.

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Tempest Golden of Tricoci University of Beauty Culture joined 13News to share about the history of African hair braiding.