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 seem ...

Despite warnings from her family that an ethnic hairdo might hurt her career, Melissa Theodore of Huntington, N.Y., an accountant at Ernst & Young, wears her hair in long, thin braids with burgundy ...

After seeing her mother’s friend braid her older sister’s hair, Davette Mabrie took up the craft at 14. She’d braid hair for hours on the front porch of her family’s home in South Central Los Angeles.

California Senate Bill 188 would extend the definition of racial discrimination to include bias against hair textures and styles associated with race and ethnicity while the New York City Human Rights ...

ST. PAUL — A bill that would create specific protections against discrimination based on ethnic hairstyles has passed in the Minnesota House and awaits a vote in the Senate. The CROWN Act, sponsored ...

Are you looking for a simple hairstyle that’s suitable for the office for your African American hair? Aside from having a fashionable wardrobe, you can use your femininity in the way you wear her hair ...

Despite warnings from her family that an ethnic hairdo might hurt her career, Melissa Theodore, an accountant at Ernst & Young, wears her hair in long, thin braids with burgundy highlights that ...

A former top official of a British Petroleum Oil Co. division headquartered in California says she was fired after being warned to reserve dashikis and braided hairstyles for special observances in ...

A black woman says she was fired from British Petroleum (BP) for wearing a dashiki and for wearing her hair in braids. Melphine Evans was a vice president and CFO for two BP ofshoots. Now, she is ...

Recent actions by New York City and California state governments to extend legal protections against racial discrimination to include hairstyles linked to ethnic, racial or cultural identity are ...