My big chop story is nothing that amazing. It was something that happened sporadically. Well the second time it was sporadic. The first time I transitioned for a year and then I chopped it off. The second time I wasn't about to go through all that again. I'd done...

In 2001, when my book Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America hit store shelves, women rocking natural hair styles were considered brave and daring. They had to possess super-human levels of self-confidence and an arsenal of homemade hair care potions at the ready because there were few commercial...

You know what never seems to amaze me? How people always claim that "it's just hair" but i constantly run across stories like these that reinforce the fact that it's not just hair. Vanessa VanDyke has been going to this school all of her life and now they are telling...