Black women face social pressures to straighten their hair using chemical relaxers, despite growing evidence linking these ...

With most hair relaxer ads referring to textured hair as “difficult to manage” and “time-consuming,” cosmetic companies ask Black women to assimilate, marketing their “soft and silky ...

In October 2022, a groundbreaking new study was published which found that regular use of hair relaxer (a product used by millions of Black women in the U.S.) increases the risk of uterine cancer.