LaQuana Johnson, a cosmetologist and owner of Elite Hair Therapy LLC, applies Affirm hair relaxer on her client’s hair at Elite Hair Therapy in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Sept. 15, 2023. Pat Nabong / Chicago Sun-Times
Nine out of 10 Black women have used hair relaxing chemicals to straighten their thick curls. But lawsuits have been piling up in state and federal courts across the country for years claiming chemicals in hair relaxers are causing cancer.
Reset learns more about an investigation by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times.
GUESTS: Natalie Moore, Race, Class and Communities editor, WBEZ
Andy Grimm, Chicago Sun-Times reporter
Traccye Love, former Oak Park cop
