Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o star in a powerful spread for Vanity Fair. In the photos, the two ladies ditch the glam and pose in little to no makeup while rocking their natural hair.

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After a long battle to include protective hairstyles for women of color in their uniform policy, the Marine Corps Uniform Board 215 decided to make the traditional hairstyles permissible options, as long as the styles are "professional and neat in appearance."

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Screw the rules of discrimination. And to hell with the rules of accountability.

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In I-am-sad-to-even-have-to-write-about-this-today reporting, a Kenyan blogger wrote a post about how natural hair is ugly.

An eighth-grader was reduced to tears and utter embarrassment last week when she was sent to the principal's office for simply wearing her natural hair.

With the latest Apple update came more new emojis, and while we're all loving the middle finger option, still missing was some appreciation for the women with curly hair.

Zoe Kravitz has landed yet another stunning magazine cover. The 26-year-old actress appears on the cover of the October issue of C Magazine; can she get any more flawless? Of course, we’re talking about her face, but you can’t miss her nips either. Inside the spread, Zoe poses in a sheer top, and she also took […]

Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole made two of the most politically charged rap albums of 2015 and 2014, and both let their natural hair flourish.

It just doesn’t get any cuter than North West. Today, KimYe’s first-born celebrates her second birthday and in her two short years, she’s given us more “AWWW”-worthy moments than we can count. Not to mention, she’s more stylish than most adults and can rock a slick hairdo better than us too. Although Kim Kardashian loves to control […]

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No one enjoys an interruption at dinner. But for Mad Men actress Teyonah Parris, an awkward encounter turned into a thoroughly unpleasant experience when a man grabbed her “stimulating” natural tresses. Whatever that means. Parris live-tweeted an encounter with an older White man who continuously tried to touch her hair at The Ritz-Carlton earlier this […]

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Frustrated by an inability to find a doll that highlighted her three daughters’ beautiful African-American features, Angelica Sweeting created one of her own. Sweeting, 27, of Miami, Florida, created the Angelica Doll after realizing that her oldest daughter Sophia was unhappy with her kinks and curls because of the straight-haired White dolls she played with […]