Rapunzel also exists in real life. She's Indian and her name is Smita Srivastava. It's been twenty years since she last set foot in a hair salon. Today, her ebony hair reaches the floor and measures ...

Black women everywhere are well aware that braids are the epitome of liberating, but there's something about seeing Michelle Obama swinging the protective style in the wind that feels deeply freeing.

Over the past two decades, the Argentinian photographer Irina Werning has traveled around Latin America with a specific directive in mind: find women — and eventually, men — with the longest hair.