Right around the time people started leaving the house with socks and slippers on, people also started wearing their durags in public—mainly black artists and athletes. Durags originally served as a ...

I was riding the MTA bus on an autumn evening when a twentysomething-year-old man sat across from me. It wasn’t the three-piece suit and the burgundy tie that wonderstruck me. He was wavy—his hair was ...

Black people across the world have been using social media to celebrate the durag - a piece of cloth which protects waved and corn-rowed hairstyles. On Twitter the hashtag #DuragHistoryWeek has ...

In conservative states like Texas and North Carolina, Durag Day is sweeping American colleges as a symbol of Black empowerment and unification. The durag, a piece of cloth worn on the head, has its ...

In Baltimore, you gotta keep the devil [way down] in the hole, and your waves spinning. HBO's crown jewel and the undisputed GOAT of television gave us windows into all aspects and communities of the ...