Today marks World Afro Day. Founded by CEO Michelle De Leon and run alongside director Denese Chikwendu, it is described as "A global day of change, education and celebration of Afro hair, culture and ...

Historically, beauty standards have favored straight hair and stigmatized textured hair as being unprofessional or messy. But in many Black and brown communities, hair has a cultural significance with ...

11-year-old Carly made history after becoming the first person in the UK to donate her natural afro hair to The Princess Trust charity. Carly had been trying to donate her hair to the wig-making ...

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 ...

When Cynthia Collazo Pacheco was a 5-year-old girl growing up in Puerto Rico, she begged for a perm. After being called names like “monkey” in school, she’d come to think of her natural Afro-textured ...

Stigmatisms of Afro hair has been rife across media for decades. The misrepresentation and mischaracterisation of Afro hair being perceived as scruffy or unkept - generally from the wider European ...