From fades and lineups to braids and locs, Black hair has long been more than style. It is identity, history and expression.

Locs, also referred to as dreadlocks, can be traced back through history for thousands of years. In Ancient Egypt, for instance, synthetic wigs made from a blend of palm fibres, wool and human hair ...

A group of young East Londoners have designed emojis with Afro hairstyles in a bid to increase equality and representation. Community support group Rise.365 says that despite there being almost 4,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Spice Girl Mel B is among those calling for Afro hair emojis to be rolled out across global digital devices (Lucy North/PA ...

A Black high school student in Texas has served more than two weeks of in-school suspensions for wearing twisted locs to school. After being punished, 17-year-old Darryl George returned to school with ...

The recent brouhaha surrounding the insistence of a prestigious senior high school in Ghana to have two students with dreadlocks shave off their hair before enrolment has made the headlines on the ...

When classes start Wednesday, a Texas school district cannot enforce a hair-length policy that would have required two African American students to cut their long dreadlocks, or face punishment. A pro ...

A 12-year-old African-American girl says three of her white male classmates pinned her down and cut several of her dreadlocks. The girl, Amari Allen, tells CNN that three white boys at Immanuel ...

“Why are you so sad?” a TV reporter asked the little girl with a bright pink bow in her hair. “Because they didn’t like my dreads,” she sobbed, wiping her tears. “I think that they should let me have ...