A 16-year-old girl is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of murdering her teenage rival with a steel Afro comb. Rebecca Douglas, who was 15 at the time, plunged the sharpened end ...

A 16-year-old girl has been given a life sentence for killing a teenager with an Afro comb. Rebecca Douglas, who was 15 at the time, stabbed 16-year-old Julie Sheriff in the head with the pointed ...

Afro comb designer would have "loved to be taught by a black woman" A woman launching an innovative new comb for afro hair wants to use her experience to get other young black women into engineering. ...

A 16-year-old girl has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of killing a fellow teenager with an afro comb. Rebecca Douglas, of Hackney, East London, killed 16-year-old Julie ...

Afro hair is full of coils that need special care in order for them to be effectively detangled. So finding the right tools is key to maintaining these types of tresses. Black hair textures are vastly ...

I spend most of my time resembling a cross between a poodle and a stick of candyfloss. It's not by choice; because of my mixed African/English heritage, I have very finely textured, but very tightly ...

As an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge looks at the history and impact of the Afro comb, Focus on Africa talks to a Ghanaian hairdresser about its importance and the trend for natural ...