Tony-winning play, now at Chicago Shakespeare, builds empathy for salon artists making their way in America by helping women ...

Buoyed by a successful Broadway run, the play about a bustling beauty salon opens this week at Chicago Shakespeare.

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a celebration of Black hair and salons, a kind of sanctuary for Black women where societal ...

T Charles Erickson Share For about 75 minutes of its 90-minute running time, “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding ... singling out Nikiya Mathis’ hair and wig work, given the absence of such ...

For the Scientific American ... wig-makers as a body were duly incorporated, the members being allowed to carry side weapons, and they held the exclusive monopoly of the trade in human hair ...

In the center of the glowing environment hangs a huge globe coated with the sort of artificial hair used to produce Afro wigs. The fluffy ... Orleans-based Vietnamese-American artist Christian ...

Best beauty products from black-owned brands to support in 2025 - We’ve tested and tried products for black skin, hair and ...

He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, ...

I grew up with parents who ran an Afro-Caribbean supermarket in South East London, where wigs, weaves, and hair extensions flew off the shelves weekly. As a West African ... more affordable and ...

Jocelyn Bioh's “Jaja's African Hair Braiding” delivers more than it promises. At first, the 90-minute portrait of a day in ...