NEWS STORIES
Man Gets 23 Years For Shooting A Man Over A Hair Weave Argument
Source: Mugshot Sometimes when you see some news reports you have to wonder if its real, can a person really ...
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Carol’s Daughter Has Filed For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy And Why I’m Not Worried
The news of companies affiliated with Carol’s Daughter filing for bankruptcy has been burning a trail through the hair world ...
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Domineque Aka Lonhairdontcare2011 Passes Away: A Sad Day in Our Community
Okay guys, so as I am typing this I feel like breaking down into tears. We are sad to say ...
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Steve Harvey To Husband Who Hates Wife’s Natural Hair: “It Ain’t Your Damn Head”
The idea of a whether or not your other half likes your natural hair is not new to us here ...
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Erykah Badu, Solange and Ledisi Cover Essence’s ‘Natural Beauty’ Issue
There are a few people at Essence magazine who will be working overtime this month because not only will they ...
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Are The New Army Regulations Inherently Discriminatory To Natural Hair?
This is the exact copy of a petition that was submitted to the Obama Administration on March 20th in lieu ...
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Woman awarded $75,000 Settlement After Cop Forcibly Cut Off Her Hair
I had a variety of thoughts when I saw this story, most of them surrounding, I wish a woman [Insert ...
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Memphis News Anchor Reveals Her Natural Hair On Air After Beating Breast Cancer
Photo Source: WMC-TV There was an act of bravery in Tennessee last week when Pam Mckelvy of WC TV revealed ...
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Black Female Entrepreneurs Can’t Convince White Male Investors Of The Value Of Investing In The Black Hair Industry
I first came across this post on one of my favorite blogs madamenoire and it was about three Georgia Tech ...
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Media Critics Bash White Woman For Not Using Shampoo For 5 Years
Do you watch the Today show? Well if you don’t, just to give you an idea, they have two shows, the ...
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Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King
Today, people all over the world honor Dr. Martin Luther King today, he would have been 85 years old. It ...
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R.I.P Nelson Mandela
Most of you may have already heard about the sad passing of Nelson Mandela. We would like to take a ...
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Another Child Getting Kicked Out Of School Because Of Her Hair – Vanessa VanDyke [UPDATE]
I don’t know about you but I am so tired of hearing about little girls that are discriminated against because of their hair ...
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Check Out The Latest Anti-Wigs PSA:Thoughts Anyone?
I took a trek down memory lane recently and it brought me back to a time when I used to ...
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Relaxer Sales Decline Once Again But Wigs And Weave Sales Remain Strong
A 26% decline overall? Ouch! We know a few relaxer company CEO’s are probably not sleeping too well at night ...
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Must Watch! My Natural Hair is Beautiful – PSA
O em Gee I almost cried when I watched this PSA with these adorable young ladies. I totally got the concept ...
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Cut Off Your Dreadlocks Or Lose Your Job – Woman In Missouri Told
No sooner are we done congratulating ourselves on the good work we have done in effecting change around how natural ...
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Maggot Infested Weaves From Corpses?
This sounds like something straight out of a horror story book and with today being Halloween you would imagine that ...
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What We Do DOES Make A Difference!
Extra Extra read all about it! Sheryl Underwood said something crazy on national television. Nikki Minage is showing her ‘real ...
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School In Tulsa Sends Girl Home Saying Dreadlocks And Afros Are Unacceptable
Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa is the latest school to come under scrutiny because of it’s dress code that ...
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Relaxer Sales Down 30% As Natural Hair Products Flood The Market
Surfing the net recently I came across an interesting piece in the Bloomberg Business week website. Here’s a short excerpt ...
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Google Reader Bites The Dust – How To Remain Connected With BHI
We follow a bunch of blogs here on BHI. In fact they make the meat of our weekly roundup post ...
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CAN You Touch My Hair? Response To The ‘You Can Touch My Hair’ Exhibit
If you ever go to the Manhattan area, Union Square is a must see spot, from the park to the ...
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Mizani UK’s Big Fail At Understanding Natural Hair
There are few things that put me into rant mode but sometimes I come across something that makes me do ...
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We Are Featured In The June/July Issue Of Black Beauty And Hair Magazine!
Yaaay! I’m so happy and proud to be featured in the June/July issue of Black Beauty & Hair magazine. I ...
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Is Natural Hair A Dumb Investment? This New York Writer Thinks So!
We hear all the time that black or at the very least ‘textured’ hair products are a multi billion dollar ...
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