A beauty writer takes us into her service at Harlem's luxury African braiding shop (and why it's worth the price).

Earlier this week, we told you about a growing call by some Black Americans online to boycott African braiding shops beginning August 1, citing poor customer service and outrageous policies as a ...

By the time Diessou Kante opened JolieDen’s Beauty Bar in 2018, she already knew what she didn’t want. She’d spent years ...

To playwright Jocelyn Bioh, the African hair braiders of Harlem are icons. “They’re a large part of the economy of Harlem,” Bioh said of the Manhattan neighborhood. “Those are women-owned businesses, ...

Every few decades the theater needs its “Steel Magnolias.” Before Robert Haring’s beauty-shop dramedy opened in 1987, there was Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 comedy, “The Women,” which also made a beauty ...

Jocelyn Bioh’s Harlem-set play, bristling with wit and drama, follows the staff and customers of a hair braiding salon as they joke, argue, and try to get those styles just right. Senior Editor and ...

Jaja’s realistically encapsulates one day’s worth of work in a Harlem-based braid shop. Clients of all backgrounds come in asking for different styles: everything from sew-ins to micro braids. And if ...

Isis Brantley won’t have to establish a 2,000-square-foot barber college with equipment she doesn’t need to teach African hair braiding, a judge has ruled. ( Ashley Landis - Staff Photographer ) After ...

Isis Brantley owns the Institute of Ancestral Braiding in Oak Cliff. A Dallas businesswoman achieved a victory against the state of Texas this month when a federal court declared that rules that ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The cast of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, written by Jocelyn Bioh and ...

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