EditorialA client is styled with knotless braids at Aminata African Hair Braiding, a salon in Harlem, New York, on July 9, 2022. (Makeda Sandford/The New York Times)
EditorialAn elaborate wedding dress by the firm L.P. Hollander, whose founder was an abolitionist, in a scene created by film director Radha Blank that includes a woven “quilt,” or veil that acts as a reference to both African beading and braiding and reads “We Good. Thx!,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibit, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” in New York, May 1, 2022. (Charlie Rubin/The New York Times)
EditorialDiarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, and her mother, Ami Cole, in Cole’s hair braiding shop in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Oct. 12, 2022. (Elianel Clinton/The New York Times)
EditorialThe celebrity hair stylist Cheryl Bergamy creates a red carpet-worthy braided bun in New York, Sept. 7, 2021. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialHaitian migrants, some of whom earn money with small services like braiding hair or selling food and soft drinks, in a park in downtown Tapachula, Mexico, Feb. 5, 2020. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times)