A softball player from Hillside High School said she felt like she was forced to cut beads out of her hair during a game this past April. And now there’s an update:     Backstory: The hair beads in Nicole Pyles’ knotless braids became the focus of the game when the coaches from the other […]

This viral video has been resounding with many Black women online this week. A Black woman in line at a restaurant has a stranger begin to stroke her braids. What would you have done?   According to the person who recorded the video, “I saw her playing with it as I walked in, and decided […]

Social media is buzzing this morning because of braids. A young girl at Christ The King Elementary in Louisiana was told to leave school because her braided hairstyle was in violation of the school’s handbook. The handbook states, “Boys and girls: only the student’s natural hair is permitted. Extensions, wigs, hair pieces of any kind are […]

Sigh. If it’s 2018, then Kim Kardashian is back to appropriating styles that Black women have been known to wear for years. YEARSSSSSS.   Sooooo….then there was lots of this:       Facebook: The Karen Clark Instagram: @TheKarenClark Twitter/Snapchat: @The_KarenClark

Hair. We’re talking about hair?? That was our response when we heard about Black girls at a charter school in Massachusetts being banned from participating in track, the Latin club, the prom and being sent to detention all because of their natural styles. School leaders said that their braids were in violation of the school’s […]

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Hey ladies!! So, this past summer I decided to try out a new hairstyle called Crochet Braids and I loved it! I received a ton of…

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Ending what has turned out to be a nearly two decade fight, on late Thursday, the Texas House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass a bill…