Many Black women have experienced the ritual of hair straightening, whether through chemical relaxers that caused a familiar tingling sensation signaling it was time to wash the product out or get ...

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“We all kind of share the same story,” said panelist Ava Pearl. On the live taping of Pearl’s Between Us Curls podcast at this year’s ESSENCE Festival, “there wasn’t a lot of representation growing up ...

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