So, when one of my co-workers announced that the Guinness World Record for the biggest afro had been awarded, I scurried over to record holder Jessica Martinez‘s Instagram page. There, I found post ...

THE CLAIM: Black hair does not grow easily. “Good hair” or looser curl patterns are special because they can grow more in length. During the five-year process it took to prepare her second album, SZA ...

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 ...

An excerpt on identity, hope, and glory from My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration and Tips to Love and Care for Your Crown. In Chad, the women say God left a gift in the mountains to make their hair ...

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 ...

For a Black woman, her hair can be her crowning glory, an expression of pride in her appearance. But it can also be something more, something deeper — something rooted in culture and a complicated ...

*Black women’s hairstyles are at the center of criticism from a white TikToker who calls herself an “elegance and etiquette coach.” In a video that has since been deleted, amira.bessette said ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. An August 2025 experiment highlights the disparities in how AI ...

Latinx Heritage Month is a time to celebrate Hispanic culture. In addition to commemorating Hispanic people, places, foods, etc.—it is also a moment to acknowledge the barriers we oppose and strive to ...

The braided hairstyles many Black women and children wear are popular for their beauty and ease of maintenance. But a consumer watchdog’s laboratory analysis has found that the synthetic hair ...