Afro puffs are like a Black girl’s right of passage. Typically, it’s the first style our mothers can scoop our little bit of hair into as a baby, then it’s the cute ‘do our parents choose for our ...

After an outcry over an Ohio charter school’s attempt to ban “afro-puffs and small twisted braids,” the institution’s dean has apologized. On June 14, officials at Horizon Science Academy in Lorian ...

The year before Barack Obama became president, I was a reporter covering the growing Caribbean-American community in South Florida. Greg Lewis, one of my esteemed colleagues at the South Florida ...

My three-year-old daughter has a beautiful Afro. It’s big and round (unless she’s leaned back in her car seat and flattened it), and most importantly, she loves it. After I use the pick to roundify it ...

Cornrows braided into curly puffs with a bandana at the top are her new signature style and we love it! Who says afro puffs are just for kids? What makes them even better is her choice to add a ...

In the mid-1990s, the song ‘Afro Puffs’ by the Lady of Rage shot to onto the billboard charts, like a crowning afro puff on top of a square neck. ‘I rock rough n stuff with my afro puff,’ she raged, ...

One young girl has used her creativity to battle negative self-image and find the joy in reading–and she was greatly rewarded for her efforts! Natalie McGriff, 7, took home a huge prize at One Spark ...

Afro puffs are like a Black girl’s right of passage. Typically, it’s the first style our mothers can scoop our little bit of hair into as a baby, then it’s the cute ‘do our parents choose for our ...