Chris Rock's 2009 documentary "Good Hair" revolutionized the hair industry and African American women noticed. Women like Charlottean Kobi Brinson. "It doesn't really make sense for me to not have my natural hair texture," said Kobi Brinson. "I don't know what it looks like so we'll see." Kobi has no idea what her real hair looked like. Her mother began relaxing it at the age of 11. "Because once it's relax ...

"Nappy hair." "Bad hair." "Good hair." "Weaved hair." "Curly hair." "Kinky hair." "Permed hair." "Short hair." "Natural hair." "Dreadlocked hair." And on and on and on. Nobody, and I mean nobody is more obsessed with our hair, how it looks, how it feels, how others feel about it, and how we feel about it than African-American women (also known as "Sistas"). I want to get right to what ails us, and it ain't ...

By: Driadonna Roland The hair on my head has been permed, bleached, mohawked, braided, fried, dip-dyed and weaved. A look at the so-called “Photos of You” on Facebook is misleading. I’ve had so many different looks you can’t tell it’s the same girl! It’s not that I love switching up the game. The reality is I grew up despising my hair. While my sisters had fine hair that turned to springy curls when water w ...

By: Abi Ishola But after five years of rocking Afros, twists and braids I started relaxing my hair again. I was comfortable with my kink, but tired of all the work it took to maintain it. So, I fell back into relaxers, bone straight bobs, flat irons, wigs and extensions. Then late last year, it happened: My hair started falling out. After several years of exposing my hair to damaging heat and harsh chemical ...

According to recent news reports, Black banks are falling on hard times, with many of them struggling to remain relevant. Of course, part of the problem is that the Great Recession has hit the Black community particularly hard. But as the Huffington Post pointed out this past week, many customers are fleeing to larger banks that offer more services and branches. And so many Black businesses find themselves ...

Black women are going natural to embrace their natural hair texture and give up the harsh chemicals in relaxers that are detrimental to our hair. Is the cost of natural hair care products or the idea that being a "product junkie" is causing newly naturals to go back to relaxing their tresses? Read more about what this blogger have to say...... I have a friend... a best friend, that went back to relaxing her ...