Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...
The NC State student faces embezzlement charges for allegedly stealing $15,000 from the African American Textile Society, a campus group.
It was, as the historian Kathy Peiss writes in Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, “perhaps the first time in American history that fashion ... came out of African-American ...