New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) reintroduced the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act ...

Begin by parting freshly washed hair into sections. “Make sure the hair is de-tangled using a paddle brush and a wide-toothed ...

Democrats have reintroduced federal legislation to ban hair discrimination. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) reintroduced the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural ...

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.When I think ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

South African stars from ‘The Last Ranger’ dazzle on the Oscars red carpet, showcasing their cultural heritage.

On his second album, Selaocoe plays many of his own compositions, some of them rooted in African tradition, others drawing from the baroque repertoire that he’s felt drawn to since he was a child.

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years.

Cornrow styles mirroring maps led to the village of San Basilio de Palenque in the 1600s, making it the first free African town in both North and South America. The popular looks are still worn to ...

Simone Biles, 27, and her husband, Chicago Bears player Jonathan Owens, 29, are celebrating a belated honeymoon in South Africa ... silk scarf tied in a chic knot around her neck.