The 19th Ward of Rochester is home to a vibrant Jamaican community, whose cultural influence is seen throughout the neighborhood—especially in the widespread embrace of locs. Rooted in the Rastafari ...

The battle for the souls of Black folks has been waged on many fronts. Hair has long been among the most contentious, from today’s braids and dreads all the way back to the intricate and symbolic ...

Locs are ropes of hair also known as Jata, dreads, and locs. Though all the names are accurate, the most popular and preferred name of them all is "locs," due to the negative connotation of the word ...

Do a Google image search for “dreadlocks” and the entire first row of images is of white people—mostly women, the one exception being an image of Johnny Depp in faux dreadlocks as Capt. Jack Sparrow ...