Earlier this year, a heartfelt short film about an African American father who has to endure the (arduous and terrifying) task of doing his young daughter’s hair for the first time captured the ...

Last year, sixth grader Faith Fennidy was sent home because her braids violated her New Orleans school’s dress code, a week after six-year-old Florida boy C. J. Stanley was turned away from his ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair. Whether it's video ...

Whether it's video games or animated movies and TV, you may have noticed that Black characters have matching hairstyles time and time again - often flat, two-dimensional and straight up unrealistic ...