Hair
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Health
F.D.A. Plans to Ban Hair Straighteners With Formaldehyde
The products, often marketed to Black women, have been linked to an increased risk of uterine cancer.
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World
A Friendship Woven of Hair and Heritage
As a child of mixed-race heritage, I often found that my hair was a source of tension between my mother…
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World
Review: At ‘Jaja’s,’ Where Everybody Knows Your Mane
Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
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Sports
If You’re Talking About His Hair, This N.B.A. Star Is Winning
Jimmy Butler’s emo persona was as short-lived as it was spectacular. Regardless of his motivation, it kept the Miami Heat’s…
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Food
Big Hair and Big Thoughts at a Paris Museum
An exhibition with over 600 items explores the evolution of women’s hairstyles, questions around body hair and more. But hair…
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Style
Celebrating Their Roots at Curlfest
On a hot and humid Saturday in New York, attendees did their best to keep cool for Curlfest, an outdoor…
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Sports
Black Equestrians Want to Be Safe. But They Can’t Find Helmets.
Chanel Robbins has been riding horses most of her life, ever since her grandmother traded a cow from their family’s…
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Food
How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age
From the set design to the wig styles, the Broadway musical creates a richly detailed vision of the 1920s and…
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Magazine
What I Learned When I Started Using Rogaine
It’s not a quick fix. That might be a virtue.
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Food
‘Babylon’ and the Case of the Missing Bob Haircut
Margot Robbie’s 1920s silent-screen star wears her locks long and frizzy — and that’s by design, as the director Damien…
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