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 ...

He built an empire around hair care products aimed at African American consumers, including a softener that inspired the Jheri curl. By Clay Risen Willie Lee Morrow, a son of Alabama sharecroppers who ...

PACOIMA >> Barber Greg Carter Faucett leaned over Luis Lepe, adjusted his clippers, then cut a graduated fade from his neck to high above his ears. When the last cut follicle fell to the floor of ...

Safari Martins may be Kenya’s most famous barber. Known as Chief Safro on social media, where he has millions of followers ...

EAST MOLINE -- Despite a proliferation of hair salons and barber shops in the Quad-Cities area, there are few places that style African-American hair and few instructors that teach it, according to ...

BAY SHORE, New York -- Long Island's K&D African Hair Braiding salon has been the go-to spot in Bay Shore for 25 years, offering more than 70 African hair braiding styles for customers to choose from.

Mr Martins explains his method by saying: “I just use unconventional tools.” Moments later, a razor-sharp shovel edge glides ...

Live Chair Health trains barbers to address health disparities. A teenage boy with electric-blue glasses reached toward the handle of the barbershop entrance, trying to grab the door before it closed.

KIAMBU, Kenya -- Safari Martins leads his client Ian Njenga into a sparse shack on the rural roadside in Kiambu, at the edge of metropolitan Nairobi. On the shack’s wooden walls hang a shovel, iron, ...