The show curtain has a picture guide for the uninitiated: box braids, corn rows, micro braids, Ghana braids, tree braids. Even, if you’re lucky and the stylist is in the right mood, kinky twists. All ...

The show curtain has a picture guide for the uninitiated: box braids, cornrows, micro braids, Ghana braids, tree braids. Even, if you’re lucky and the stylist is in the right mood, kinky twists. All ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

Although they both looked fresh and rested, beauticians Rokeya Ouattara and Anna Traora already had been on their feet for several hours. They were weaving natural hair extensions into their clients' ...

The cast of SpeakEasy Stage's production of "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) When the metal grill-like curtain parted in the Roberts Studio Theatre, we not only entered ...

How and why did the kind-hearted, smart and green Elphaba Thropp become such a nasty, powerful, dare we say wicked witch of the classic tale “The Wizard of Oz”? The big-screen adaptation of the ...

It’s 23 degrees celsius on a late Saturday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and I’m squeezing my way through a dense crowd of people on Rye Lane. As I lope across the concrete pavements dotted ...

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding opens tonight at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 W. 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue). The cast of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, written by Jocelyn Bioh ...