Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is the product of “30-plus years of stories that I ...

The SpeakEasy Stage's production of the Tony Award-winning play centers hair braiders and their lives over one day in the ...

A South African woman was convicted on ... near their neighbourhood of shacks close to the west coast town of Saldanha Bay, about 75 miles north of Cape Town. A photograph of Joshlin smiling and with ...

A South African woman has been convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter. The girl remains missing.

At SpeakEasy Stage, playwright Jocelyn Bioh shares the hilarious and complicated lives of the women who work in the salon, ...

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding salon is open for business, even though its eponymous owner is hours away from getting married. Presiding over the shop’s team of talented, high-spirited, West ...

Four men from West Africa have been arrested in a sick ... nude photos online to a scammer he believed to be a 20-year-old woman — who then threatened to make the images public if he refused ...

The show, which opened in October 2023 and closed the next month, is set in a bustling Harlem salon where West African ...

During the 18th century, our women ancestors were mandated by law to cover their hair with tignons, large head scarves made ...

Synthetic hair products are in the spotlight after a study found some materials sold to US consumers contain cancer-causing chemicals. For African women, braiding has for decades helped them maint ...

A South African woman has been convicted of kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that horrified the country ...

What makes “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” different is that it takes place at an establishment run by, and primarily for, West African women, including immigrants and Dreamers. And while ...