Hairstyles such as dreadlocks, cornrows and afros could soon be expressly allowed and protected against discrimination in Wake County schools. The Wake County school board’s policy committee backed ...
Schools that ban dreadlocks and braiding hairstyles are using slave-era techniques to ‘maintain white supremacy’, according to two British academics. A research paper claims that attempts to police ...
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, ...
California lawmakers are working on a bill to protect people from being discriminated against because of their hair. The so-called "Crown Act" would make it illegal for employers to enforce policies ...
The U.S. Army’s new ban on many types of ethnic hairstyles has African-American women who wear their coifs in dreadlocks, braids and cornrows in a twist. The Army’s regulations stipulate such guidance ...
Dreadlocks are not permitted at Gisborne Boys’ High School. (File photo)Stuff / Stuff A rule forbidding “extravagant and unusual haircuts, including dreadlocks and braids” at Gisborne Boys’ High ...
Emily Brown was questioned about her natural hair at the nonprofit organization where she is founder and CEO. Emily Brown runs a nonprofit in the Kansas City area. She is a black woman who wears her ...
CHICAGO (CBS) --A new law aims to stop hair discrimination in schools. The brave kid who inspired it: Jett Hawkins. Earlier this year the four-year-old was told that his braids violated his school's ...