Most women feel strongly about their outward appearance, especially when it comes to their hair. Hair is a major part of any woman's identity. For Black women, there’s an even greater significance ...

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 ...

The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way.

As Americans continue to weather the pandemic, many have been turning to poetry: According to the executive director of the Academy of American Poets, traffic to the organization’s site ...

A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing ...

Katy Perry wanted to feel "liberated" with her daring blonde pixie cut in 2017, but her hairdresser Justin Anderson uncovered ...

In a world that tells Black women when to smile, how to dress and how to wear our hair, these women are making bold ...

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

William Logan on new volumes and editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson ...

May 21, 2025 – "I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, ...

I also like the idea of increasing trust by mutual grooming, such as shaving and hair ... Punany Poets speak to men from a position of friendship and respect. We are unlike many entertainment programs ...

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 ...