The Chicago-area native recently returned to the city to celebrate natural hair and Black Heritage Month at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. She’s on a high after starring ...

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Jaja’s African Hair Braiding opened on Broadway in 2023 with a run that extended twice. Ghanaian American playwright and actor Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy ... “As a Black woman, your hair is ...

Sometimes, Netflix brings out the big guns for its stand-up comedy specials, and there are few bigger than Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. We swear that’s not a fat joke; he’s just very ...

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At its heart, Sundance is about discovery. Some of our brightest, biggest filmmaking stars — we’re talking Steven Soderbergh, ...

The character, Giselle, joked about Black women needing hair weaves and made other remarks that critics have called racially insensitive. Some viewers felt the jokes perpetuated harmful stereotypes ...

Ego Nwodim played Giselle, a concerned businesswoman, urging her fellow Black women to buy all the hair extensions they possibly ... incredibly earnest and corny jokes about family dynamics ...