This summer hairstyle just got more popular in quarantine. Many women of color have been wearing box braids for decades, and while it's stylish all year long, summer is one of the best times of the ...

Protective hairstyles — hairstyles that protect the shaft and ends of the hair — are a big part of the natural hair community. Among wigs, weaves, dreadlocs, twists, and braids, box braids (braids ...

While box braids are in no way a new trend — women of colour have been wearing them for a long time — there's been something of a revival lately. Everyone from the Knowles sisters to Zoë Kravitz and ...

Braiding traditions across the African diaspora both predate and defy the colonial confines set forth to erase and subjugate Black communities. Intricate cornrows in particular—whether they are the ...