Hair braiding tells a story. Of womanhood. Of age. Of what it means to be Habesha and find your way back to rituals that almost disappeared. For Brehan, a 37-year-old bride-to-be in Dallas with ...

Now on stage at La Jolla Playhouse is the play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" by New York-based playwright Jocelyn Bioh. The play opened on Broadway in 2023, and was nominated for six Tony Awards ...

Hailes, a Kingsknowe team, withstood a late fightback by first-time finalists Murrayfield to land a third Dispatch Trophy triumph in the 125th edition at a blustery Braids. But, as father and son ...

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The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909. African hair braiding has been a culturally significant practice in Black communities for decades. Dozens of ...

While Natalie Portman hesitated to answer if she'd ever "stolen" anything, she was quick to talk about her hilarious previous experience stealing one of Anakin’s Star Wars braids. Well, that’s ...

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The play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding offers its audience a seat in a Harlem Black hair salon. But the audience will come away with much more than a new style – in fact it might just come away with a ...