It seems hair discrimination goes beyond the workplace and schools. Here’s the kicker: at no point during the transfer process was Thurman’s hair searched. They even put the cut locs in a bag to go ...

The February 2021 prison memo sent by Warden Brad Adams was clear. “Effective immediately” inmates in the medium-security, all-male prison known as the Northpoint Training Center in central Kentucky, ...

After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education ...

A federal judge this week dismissed a majority of the claims in a Black Texas high school student's lawsuit against his school district, which accused officials there of racial and gender ...

*The Chicago-based youth organization that shared photos last week of its white president cutting off a teenagers’ dreadlocks continues to face backlash over the unsettling image. Sally Hazelgrove, ...

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BAYTOWN, Texas — Two dozen protesters gathered near a Texas superintendent’s home on Wednesday to support a Black teen who has been suspended for most of the school year over the length of his ...

A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue ...

A Texas superintendent doubled down on the district's decision to punish a Black student who wears dreadlocks for violating its dress code even after being faced with litigation. The superintendent of ...

The Black teen who had been disciplined multiple times over his natural hair is now facing an even more dramatic form of punishment: disciplinary school. Upon the battle with school administrators, ...