Hair
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Arts
When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most at home.
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World
A Scientist’s Salons in Paris Cater to a Neglected Trait: Curly Hair
With a Ph.D. in chemistry and inspired by her daughter, Aude Livoreil-Djampou is trying to address the dearth of salon options in France for people with coiled or curly hair.
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World
Breaths of Fresh Hair
After witnessing what appeared to be a total democratization of hairstyles at fashion weeks in February and March, I was interested to see what cuts and colors might emerge in the crowds during the latest fashion month, which started in September in ...
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Health
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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World
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 and me. My father hails from Eritrea in East Africa, and my mother is from Sweden, so she and I have vastly different hair textures. When I was a ...
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World
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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Sports
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 media day decidedly off-topic.
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Arts
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 is never just hair.
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Magazine
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 event on Randall’s Island celebrating Black hair. Local vendors in a grassy field awaited a sea of festivalgoers showing off their most elaborate ...
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Sports
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 farm in Ontario for a pony when she was 7. Galloping through the fields on her pony, Star, offered an escape from thoughts that ...