While producing our August global issue in Rio de Janeiro, we interviewed women who are celebrating the "Afro" in Afro-Brazilian. However, their hair journey has been a battle of personal, family and ...

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Growing up in a Dominican household, my sisters and I would relax our hair. My mission today is to show young girls to love their hair just the way it is. Carolina Contreras is the 34-year-old founder ...

Standard follicular unit extraction (FUE) uses a tiny punch to remove hair. With straight hair, the root goes straight down. With Afro hair, the root curves. If the surgeon guesses the angle wrong, ...

Thaisa Moreira Xavier met her husband in a Facebook group. Although she was conscious of her Afro-Brazilian heritage, she had few black friends growing up. The city she lived in and schools she ...