The way Black people style their hair carries deep historical and spiritual significance. With so many styles that have served as a form of self-expression, resistance, and empowerment, Black ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Darryl George, an 18-year-old Black student at Barbers Hill High School, has faced disciplinary action all school year because he wears dreadlocks and has refused to cut them. The school district ...

A federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled in favor of a Black student whose school district forbade him to wear his hair in dreadlocks. U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks Jr. issued a preliminary ...

A Texas teenager, who was punished over the length of his dreadlocks, won’t have to cut his hair to return to school after a federal court blocked the district from enforcing its hair-length policy ...

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 flood emergency is underway in western Washington as a second surge of rain is causing rivers across the region to rise. by CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and JUAN LOZANO AP Education Writer MONT BELVIEU, Texas ...

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 ...

Darryl George, left, a high school junior, and his mother Darresha George, right, talk with reporters before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after Darryl served a 5-day ...