Josef Adamu, founder of Sunday School, celebrates the beauty of black braiding and black hairstyling in his photo series, ‘The Hair Appointment,’

The first time I “got my hair done” beyond school nights sitting between my mother’s cocoa butter legs while she combed through my hair with grease soaked fingertips, or Saturday morning hot comb rituals in front of the stove, was in the house kitchen of a church lady who did hair on the side. She…

People no longer have to attend years of beauty school to learn how to do hair or how to run a hair business, and the sacred stylist-client dynamic has shifted.