"If you're teaching these kids, they can make $1,000 a week, you gotta also have to teach them how to manage it," said Shawanda Parker. Parker owns a braiding salon in west Louisville, and organized ...

Mesyah, 10, said when she first got her hair braided as a little girl, she loved how it made her feel free and like herself. But since entering a more diverse school district in the city of Troy with ...

Kimberly Burke was just 10 years old when braiding came to her rescue for the first time. "I started braiding my dolls’ hair when I went into foster care," the Freeport native, now 55, recalls.

Hairstylist and braider Tillie Dixson wants her clients and her more than 414,000 TikTok followers to know how to take care of their hair on their own. Dixson, or That1 Stylist as she is known on her ...