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Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...
Across the country, Black women are learning about the health consequences linked with using hair relaxers and are banding together to demand these products – used predominantly by Black and brown ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been considering banning certain chemicals in hair straighteners. In March, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Shontel Brown urged the agency to ...
Maria Loren Ackies remembers the first time she went to the salon to get her hair professionally straightened. “I was 14 and I was so excited,” Ackies, 49, of West Hempstead, recalled. But her mood ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A NIH study published in 2022 has led to numerous lawsuits filed against the makers of hair relaxer products, alleging that ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — If there was ever a place to embrace change, it would be a hair salon. As a hairstylist for almost 40 years, Karen Hill has had a chair-side view of the ever-evolving state of Black ...
DALLAS — Thousands of women across the country have sued major hair relaxer manufacturers and brand companies, claiming that chemical straightening products have led to uterine cancer and other health ...
Formaldehyde has long been classified as a carcinogen, so why is the FDA only now moving to ban it in hair relaxers? In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human ...