IN CHRIS ROCK’S 2009 documentary film, Good Hair, the poet Maya Angelou describes a black woman’s hair as her glory. “You share that glory with your family,” Angelou says, “and they get to see you braiding it, and they get to see you washing it—it’s a glory.”
TRESSED OUT: Workers of Abiba Locks, a hair salon in Accra, Ghana, take selfies and share ideas about styles on Tress, an app launched in February.
Ghanaian software developer Priscilla Hazel believes this glory deserves to be shared beyond just a woman’s family. Last year, she created a platform to make that possible: Tress, a social app that acts as a community for black women to share information and ideas about hairstyles.