Braids have been a significant part of African and African-American culture for centuries. Though their popularity spans across oceans, there are many styles that allow Black people across diasporas ...

ACCRA, Ghana — Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father's lap as he held the 1978 album ''Africa Stand Alone'' by the Jamaican reggae band ...

London-based hair and beauty journalist Sue Omar is hell-bent on celebrating the black woman's crowning glory: her hair. She is exploring the mystique of Afro hair in a special six-part series for ...

Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically, ethnically, or in any other way, related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Ancient ...