Jessica L. Martinez earned the Guinness World Records title for the largest afro on a living person (female). Her hair was measured at 11.42 inches tall, 12.2 inches wide and 6 feet, 2.87 inches in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. An August 2025 experiment highlights the disparities in how AI ...

NAPOLEONVILLE, La. (WAFB) - A Louisiana woman who has taken her hair to new heights is known around the world for her famous Afro hairstyle. Aevin Dugas from Napoleonville uses her larger-than-life ...

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A Black woman in the United Kingdom who invented a new comb for Afro hair is using her success to educate and empower young Black women. Youmna Mouhamad’s new comb, the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler, ...

The start of a new year often arrives with a quiet urge to reset, refresh, and show up a little differently. For many women, that shift begins with hair. Short natural afro hairstyles are stepping ...

New research underscores the biases even AI has toward Black women in the workplace. New research reveals the bias artificial intelligence (AI) can show toward Black women’s hairstyles, potentially ...

For a Black woman, her hair can be her crowning glory, an expression of pride in her appearance. But it can also be something more, something deeper — something rooted in culture and a complicated ...

Learning how to grow afro hair requires patience, consistency, and an understanding of how afro-textured hair behaves ...

Stigmatisms of Afro hair has been rife across media for decades. The misrepresentation and mischaracterisation of Afro hair being perceived as scruffy or unkept - generally from the wider European ...

The relationship between characters and their Afro-textured hair has become a focus of directors and stylists, who are mindful of Hollywood’s restrictive past. By Tiffany Martinbrough On the recent ...