A decade after the big chop, a growing number of Black women are reaching for the chemical straightener again, even as lawsuits and health warnings pile up Relaxers were, for generations, a near-universal rite in Black hair care: a thick chemical cream smoothed onto coiled roots, a scalp that tingled and then burned, and a […]

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