As the semester gets underway for students at Hampton University, students are once again questioning the controversial ban on cornrows and dreadlocks by administrators in the university’s five-year ...

The way Black people style their hair carries deep historical and spiritual significance. With so many styles that have served as a form of self-expression, resistance, and empowerment, Black ...

“Why are you so sad?” a TV reporter asked the little girl with a bright pink bow in her hair. “Because they didn’t like my dreads,” she sobbed, wiping her tears. “I think that they should let me have ...

The recent brouhaha surrounding the insistence of a prestigious senior high school in Ghana to have two students with dreadlocks shave off their hair before enrolment has made the headlines on the ...

School in Tulsa in August rescinded language banning dreadlocks%2C afros%2C mohawks Charter school in Lorain%2C Ohio%2C in the summer proposed ban on certain styles Dean of Hampton University business ...

Along with the afro, dreadlocks remain the most distinctive black hair style among other ethnic groups. "The problem remains however, that while we may style our hair to reflect our own individual ...

The U.S. Army’s new ban on many types of ethnic hairstyles has African-American women who wear their coifs in dreadlocks, braids and cornrows in a twist. The Army’s regulations stipulate such guidance ...

In New Jersey, Andrew Johnson, an African American wrestler with dreadlocks was told he had to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a wrestling match. Under pressure, the teenage wrestler stood resigned ...

Johannesburg: A Zimbabwean man was recently robbed of his dreadlocks at a South African night club to feed a growing demand for human hair extensions, a local paper reported on Tuesday. The Times said ...

In this nation where a Dylann Roof casually kills nine black people and we are at risk of electing a President who refers to “the African Americans” as if we were in a diorama, we are to be offended, ...

Black hair has been an integral feature of black history - from African tribal styles to dreadlocks and the afro. As an exhibition in Liverpool explores the significance of hair in black culture, BBC ...