Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a celebration of Black hair and salons, a kind of sanctuary for Black women where societal ...

Tony-winning play, now at Chicago Shakespeare, builds empathy for salon artists making their way in America by helping women ...

Jocelyn Bioh's “Jaja's African Hair Braiding” delivers more than it promises. At first, the 90-minute portrait of a day in ...

braids signified status and wealth as they were practiced on wigs created for royalty. In other African cultures, braids served as a form of identification, as different tribes would adorn their ...

Buoyed by a successful Broadway run, the play about a bustling beauty salon opens this week at Chicago Shakespeare.

Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" tells the story of ten Black immigrant women whose lives ...

Getty Images Women of African descent are advised to rethink ... across Africa spend an estimated $6bn (£4bn) on weaves, braids and wigs each year. "Every woman feels more sophisticated with ...

Jocelyn Bioh’s funny, poignant “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” onstage at Berkeley ... (the complicated and fascinating hair and wig design is by Nikiya Mathis) and accents from Senegal ...