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Rickey Smiley (Photo credit: Jonell Whitt for Steed Media) Morning radio show host Rickey Smiley is incensed at what he deems as the systematic emasculation of young Black boys. He took umbrage ...
A family is suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state's attorney general after a Black high school student was suspended over his dreadlocks. Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High ...
A 12-year-old girl says three of her male classmates at a Virginia private school pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks, calling her hair “ugly” and “nappy.” The group of w… ...
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 ...
A Texas high school that suspended a Black student for more than a month over the length of his dreadlocks is removing the student and transferring him to an alternative disciplinary program ...
Black Americans have long been subjected to hair discrimination, whether it be in corporate or school settings.For 14-year-old freshman Braxton Schafer, he has had his dreadlocks in the sixth ...
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 ...
The family of a Black Texas high school student who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal lawsuit Saturday against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton ...
The district has maintained that George's long hair — dreadlocks that he would typically wear to school twisted back and tucked — breached its policy for boys' hair length because, if let down ...
A judge in Texas said Thursday that a school’s suspension of a Black teenager because of his dreadlocks does not violate the CROWN Act, which forbids racial hair discrimination. State District ...