The battle for the souls of Black folks has been waged on many fronts. Hair has long been among the most contentious, from today’s braids and dreads all the way back to the intricate and symbolic ...

The 19th Ward of Rochester is home to a vibrant Jamaican community, whose cultural influence is seen throughout the neighborhood—especially in the widespread embrace of locs. Rooted in the Rastafari ...

Do a Google image search for “dreadlocks” and the entire first row of images is of white people—mostly women, the one exception being an image of Johnny Depp in faux dreadlocks as Capt. Jack Sparrow ...

Ava DuVernay is doing her part to turn a negative narrative about black youth’s hair into an empowering social media movement highlighting the beauty of natural locs. Her campaign, #loclife, comes in ...

One SF State student says the other was appropriating black culture with his hair Black hair is a touchy subject tied to beauty, identity and politics. Whether it’s Afros and black power or cornrows ...

The moment you realise your locs can do far more than a basic style is often when everything changes. A quick glance at the simple dreadlock styles women are wearing today reveals a clear shift—what ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that banning an employee from wearing their hair in locs is not racial discrimination. In a 3-0 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a cased brought ...