thus adding to the vast collection of braid styles already available. Briefly.co.za published the top 30 South African ladies ...

Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from ...

Braids can also show your cultural identity. Hair braiding has deep roots in West Africa, where styles once reflected a person’s tribe, social status, or marital status. Because braiding could ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural significance, telling stories of survival, status and self-expression. What may ...

Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is the product of “30-plus years of stories that I ...

The kaleidoscope of colors and textures on display in “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” demonstrates ... that the play’s 90 minutes feel too short, like the first half of what could be ...

A hair salon can be a place of hot topics, personal drama, and a clamor of opinions. However, for West African immigrant women in Harlem, an African braiding shop holds the dreams of a prosperous ...

It’s been said that you can’t hate someone whose story you know. In Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Jocelyn Bioh has woven a ...

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," ...

The Ghanaian-born designer’s triumph came from her work on the Broadway production “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” According to Playbill, Ayite’s historic win held profound significance ...

But “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” the 90-minute Broadway play by the Ghanaian-American writer Jocelyn Bioh, has one big advantage over the others in the genre. Box braids, to cite just one ...