Waist beads and anklets have been worn by Mijikenda women for centuries, and for many reasons. Some men in Coast say women who wear waist beads and anklets are good in bed and some men go an extra ...

The road to the ESSENCE Festival of Culture™ is paved with beads, the lively sounds of brass ... as the first established by African American women for African American women—but its spirit ...

More than 270,000 hand-crafted beads have been recovered from a 5,000-year-old burial site in Spain. Archaeologists think the women buried there may have been powerful, high-status figures.