Jessicca Alexander embraces her natural hair after years of using relaxers, linking them to her uterine cancer diagnosis.

At one point in her life, Kobe Campbell considered herself a natural hair warrior. Not just natural hair, kinky hair. “I think there’s a part of me that felt like I want to represent kinky hair. I ...

how do I wear my natural hair and how am I able to embrace that.” A recent National Institutes of Health study found that women who use chemical hair straighteners more than four times a year face an ...

Hair relaxers, used by many Black women for sleek, straight hair, may pose a significant breast cancer risk. The Ghana Breast Health Study (GBHS), found that Ghanaian women who use chemical relaxers, ...

A semi-permanent alternative to relaxer, a texture release temporarily loosens curls and coils. Two years into my natural hair journey, I was at my wit’s end with the dual texture of my hair.

Flewellen’s Hair Salon has been a staple in Oak Cliff for more than 50 years. Flewellen offers chemical hair relaxers to her ...

"I still believe that a relaxer-free style is probably best ... to relieve the dry scalp and also respect the quality of natural hair." It's a message Hill has also preached to clients through ...