As the semester gets underway for students at Hampton University, students are once again questioning the controversial ban on cornrows and dreadlocks by administrators in the university’s five-year ...

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 ...

Update, 2:20 p.m.: A Kentucky high school has suspended a controversial school policy banning students from wearing their hair in dreadlocks and cornrows. According to WAVE 3 News, the move to ...

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, ...

I’m so confused. Last Thursday, it seemed everyone was talking about Hampton Business School’s restrictive regulation banning male students from wearing cornrows and/or dreadlocks. There were news ...

It may be 2017, but Black women have been discriminated against for their natural hair for decades. And, as hard it may be to believe, the U.S. Army instituted a ban against servicewomen wearing ...

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