London-based hair and beauty journalist Sue Omar is hell-bent on celebrating the black woman's crowning glory: her hair. She is exploring the mystique of Afro hair in a special six-part series for ...

Four Georgia Black women filed separate lawsuits against major chemical hair relaxer manufacturers after exposure to the products was linked to cancer and uterine fibroids. A study published in the ...

*The hair relaxer cancer lawsuit is based on studies showing a strong link between chemical hair straighteners and hormone-sensitive cancers. The most influential research came in 2022 from the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who use chemical relaxers to straighten their hair do not seem to be at increased risk of breast cancer, according to a new study. Sign up here. There's no evidence ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been considering banning certain chemicals in hair straighteners. In March, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Shontel Brown urged the agency to ...

There’s no doubt that scalp care has gotten a lot of airtime over the last couple of years. As the skinification of hair has become more popular, attention has turned to our sometimes itchy and at ...

Jasmine Green sat in the kitchen one afternoon in 2003, getting her hair done by her grandmother. Her curly coils were being parted in sections with a slender comb to reveal her scalp. Vaseline was ...

The complexities of feelings and emotions of wearing your natural, Afro-textured hair have been well documented over the years through spaces like the YouTube natural hair community, Black spaces like ...