KENT, Ohio (WOIO) - On the walls of the Kent State University Museum, there’s a portrait called “Internal Battle.” The artist, Keturah Ariel, pondering the decision: natural hair or straightened? “Our ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - In February 2022, CW43 WUAB will be airing a series of special programming in honor of Black History Month. All specials will air on Saturdays January 29 through February 26, ...

More than 90 percent of American women remove at least some hair from their bodies. Standards for hair removal are based on ideas of white, cisgender femininity from the 1800s. Women’s war with body ...

Hair is community. Hair is power. Hair is an integral part of us, something personal and intimate but also one of the most visible ways we express our identity. We use it to reinvent or disguise ...