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Therapist Brittanee Sims, like many in the Black hair care industry, faces rising costs due to Trump's tariffs. This year, she'll only fund her children's hairdos. Kathy Hochul asks Marjorie ...
Before the oppressive summer heat descends on Atlanta, therapist Brittanee Sims usually gets her thick, curly hair braided at a salon.
(AP PHOTO) Many black women have hair types and workplace-favoured styles that require careful attention, and they can spend hundreds of dollars at salons each month on extensions, weaves, wigs and ...
Not having braided hair “creates more of a hassle for everything,” said Sims, who counts herself among the tens of millions of women that regularly spend on the Black hair care industry.