Thousands of women claim hair relaxers cause cancer, citing studies linking them to increased risks. Legal battles grow ...

Thousands of Black women across the country are suing chemical relaxer manufacturers, alleging the products caused cancer.

Amanda Hemann, 34, is vice president of client operations at Ignite Philanthropy. What was your first job? McDonald’s, ...

In the hair relaxer multidistrict litigation, Rowland gave lawyers until April 30 to pick bellwether cases from the nearly 10,000 lawsuits on the docket. In a contentious debate about how to ...

In court filings a number of manufacturers issued a joint statement which said in part, “Defendants deny that their hair relaxer products are toxic and/or defective in any manner. Defendants further ...

Between 2017 and 2022, Nigeria was one of the leading countries for relaxer sales growth, according to Euromonitor and ...

A few years would pass before she would see someone talking about a scientific study that had found a potential link between chemical hair relaxer use and uterine cancer while scrolling on social ...

Common cause of scalp burn is when the relaxer is left on the hair for longer than necessary. When I did my first ever perm, the hairdresser applied some petroleum jelly on the tips of my ears and ...

After decades of relying on the chemical relaxer, she heard about its potential link to uterine cancer. "I had gone through an experience with cancer back in 2000, 2008, 2009," she explained.