In last week's Sexual Politics column about how a guy choking his girlfriend with his dreadlocks shouldn't be a punchline, I made this flippant joke: "It's tempting to laugh at this news because, of ...

Talk about dreadlocks, and the first thing that comes to mind is Rastafarians and Bob Marley. For most people, however, they also evoke images of a bunch of rowdy, dirty and smelly marijuana smokers.

Dreadlocks created by Du Jialiang, 28, a stylist in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On Wednesday morning, Du Jialiang received his 15th customer this month in his ...

For most of his life, Bert Ashe appeared to the world as an ordinary, mainstream black guy. Wearing short-cropped hair and button-down shirts on his slender body, he blended in. And then he got ...

To some people, it's the coolest thing to posses, the highest form of self-expression. To others, it's a question of identity. "My dreads are my identity." Most Rastafarians belong to this group. To ...