No. You cannot touch my hair! | Mena Fombo

On today's "Sunday Pick" on TED Talks Daily, we bring you an episode from TED Podcast TEDHealth. Does eating local honey help reduce your allergies through microexposure to local pollen? How effective is at-home allergies test? And why do so many Olympic athletes have asthma? The ...  Show more

One month before the Rio Olympics, runner Alexi Pappas couldn't hit her splits in practice. She was begging her watch to change its mind. Then her coach told her to take it off — and shared the best advice she's ever received. That single piece of wisdom led her to break a nation ...  Show more

What does your body hair say about you? Can the decision to remove it be a sign of patriarchal oppression? Yassmin Abdel-Magied meets two women who decided to go against social norms and stop shaving and waxing their legs, underarms and pubic area. They discuss what's at stake ...

Today on the show Angela Yee surprised everyone with her new hair dew especially Dj Envy, to the point he wanted to touch her hair! And everyone should know touching a black girls hair is a definite no no, but why? So we opened up the phone lines to hear what our black female ...

To some it may sound absurd to consider hairstyles a workplace issue, but for millions of men and women with African and Afro-Caribbean hair, it is just that. For decades, some hairstyles have been discouraged at work. But things are finally starting to change. In 2021 the US Air ...  Show more

The black hair industry is valued to be over 2.5 billion dollars and is one of the largest beneficiaries of the black dollar. No matter if it’s curly, straight, or anything in between, hair is a huge factor in a black womxn’s life as both a form of expression and self-care. In th ...  Show more