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F.D.A. Plans to Ban Hair Straighteners With Formaldehyde

The products, often marketed to Black women, have been linked to an increased risk of uterine cancer.

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A Friendship Woven of Hair and Heritage

As a child of mixed-race heritage, I often found that my hair was a source of tension between my mother…

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Review: At ‘Jaja’s,’ Where Everybody Knows Your Mane

Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.

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If You’re Talking About His Hair, This N.B.A. Star Is Winning

Jimmy Butler’s emo persona was as short-lived as it was spectacular. Regardless of his motivation, it kept the Miami Heat’s…

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Big Hair and Big Thoughts at a Paris Museum

An exhibition with over 600 items explores the evolution of women’s hairstyles, questions around body hair and more. But hair…

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Celebrating Their Roots at Curlfest

On a hot and humid Saturday in New York, attendees did their best to keep cool for Curlfest, an outdoor…

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Black Equestrians Want to Be Safe. But They Can’t Find Helmets.

Chanel Robbins has been riding horses most of her life, ever since her grandmother traded a cow from their family’s…

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How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age

From the set design to the wig styles, the Broadway musical creates a richly detailed vision of the 1920s and…

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What I Learned When I Started Using Rogaine

It’s not a quick fix. That might be a virtue.

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‘Babylon’ and the Case of the Missing Bob Haircut

Margot Robbie’s 1920s silent-screen star wears her locks long and frizzy — and that’s by design, as the director Damien…

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