A beauty writer takes us into her service at Harlem's luxury African braiding shop (and why it's worth the price).

By the time Diessou Kante opened JolieDen’s Beauty Bar in 2018, she already knew what she didn’t want. She’d spent years watching her mother braid hair in less-than-ideal conditions, and she was ...

To playwright Jocelyn Bioh, the African hair braiders of Harlem are icons. “They’re a large part of the economy of Harlem,” Bioh said of the Manhattan neighborhood. “Those are women-owned businesses, ...

Every few decades the theater needs its “Steel Magnolias.” Before Robert Haring’s beauty-shop dramedy opened in 1987, there was Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 comedy, “The Women,” which also made a beauty ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Jaja's African Hair Braiding will begin previews on Tuesday, September 12 ...

Jaja’s realistically encapsulates one day’s worth of work in a Harlem-based braid shop. Clients of all backgrounds come in asking for different styles: everything from sew-ins to micro braids. And if ...

Earlier this week, we told you about a growing call by some Black Americans online to boycott African braiding shops beginning August 1, citing poor customer service and outrageous policies as a ...

Halo Braid, a machine learning–powered braiding device by Harvard alumna Yinka Ogunbiyi, won Harvard Business School’s ...

Isis Brantley won’t have to establish a 2,000-square-foot barber college with equipment she doesn’t need to teach African hair braiding, a judge has ruled. ( Ashley Landis - Staff Photographer ) After ...

AUSTIN (AP) — Texas won't appeal a federal judge's ruling last week that state laws regulating businesses teaching African hair braiding were unconstitutional. In a statement Monday, Department of ...

Two Bronx women are suing a pair of African braiding shops, accusing workers of burning them with vats of boiling liquid and ignoring their cries for help. Shena Washington, 45, and Karla Santiago, 28 ...