Jessica L. Martinez earned the Guinness World Records title for the largest afro on a living person (female). Her hair was measured at 11.42 inches tall, 12.2 inches wide and 6 feet, 2.87 inches in ...

NAPOLEONVILLE, La. (WAFB) - A Louisiana woman who has taken her hair to new heights is known around the world for her famous Afro hairstyle. Aevin Dugas from Napoleonville uses her larger-than-life ...

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A Louisiana woman has set a Guinness world record for having the largest afro on a living person, and it's not her first time doing it. Aevin Dugas, 47, has an afro measuring 9.84 inches tall, 10.24 ...

New research underscores the biases even AI has toward Black women in the workplace. New research reveals the bias artificial intelligence (AI) can show toward Black women’s hairstyles, potentially ...

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For a Black woman, her hair can be her crowning glory, an expression of pride in her appearance. But it can also be something more, something deeper — something rooted in culture and a complicated ...

It’s her crowning glory! A Queens woman is aiming to beat the Guinness World Record for largest afro with luscious locks that reach about 14 inches high and 20 inches wide. Jessica Martinez, 28, ...

Stigmatisms of Afro hair has been rife across media for decades. The misrepresentation and mischaracterisation of Afro hair being perceived as scruffy or unkept - generally from the wider European ...

'The curiosity to touch Afro hair starts in school and continues into adulthood, transferring to the workplace", says this lawyer, in a piece for U.K. Black History Month. Rebekah Gougeon When it ...