Bob Ross' famous curls weren't natural - the iconic painter's hair was naturally straight until he got a perm to save money. The look became legendary, but it also came with a downside.

Nicole Kidman cut a solemn figure as she stepped out alone for Christmas morning mass in North Sydney on Thursday.

Today the black hair product business is a billion-dollar industry, fueled by black women's desire to keep their tresses looking good. But hair in black America is not just about aesthetics. It's ...

Before she was co-owner of a thriving salon or a trusted name in bridal glam, Nidiyah Salahuddin was just a little girl watching her grandmother press hair with a hot comb over the stove. “Just ...

According to the report, the unemployment rate for Black women is 7.5%. Rep. Pressley, who sits on the House Financial Services Committee, is calling on the Federal Reserve to take action. According ...

Tanya Myers and Ashley Price are on a mission to tackle divides in health care service delivery and access for Black women and girls. The duo founded Baltimore-based Shaping Health Equity (SHE) in ...

If you can learn anything from being around a few decades, it's that what goes around most certainly comes back around—whether you necessarily want it to or not. Take skinny jeans, the controversial ...

Our bodies are intricate machines: complex, intelligent, and deeply responsive to how we nourish them. For Black women in particular, nutrition and taking the right essential vitamins are crucial ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is calling for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to address a new jobs report that shows a disproportionate jump in the unemployment rate for Black workers, with a ...

As the American economy moves through choppy global waters of its own making, new data suggests that the country's precarious financial markets have already begun leaving one crucial demographic ...

It is just after noon inside Your Natural Image hair salon in South Kansas City, Missouri, on a Thursday in July. The 16-year-old Cornelius Mitchell has just come from under the dryer. Mitchell, a ...

WASHINGTON ‒ The number of Black women elected to Congress has remained steady in recent years, but a record number of Black women have served in state legislatures this year, often the pipeline to ...