A father is taking legal action against a school for banning his 6-year-old son for his hairstyle. Clinton Stanley of Apopka, Fla., filed a complaint against A Book’s Christian Academy for illegal ...

The past couple of years, I conducted an informal sociological study of how strangers treat me based on my hairstyle. I didn't set out to do this, but being a person who switches hairdos with the ...

Butler Traditional High is proposing a new hair policy in its dress code that no longer would ban afros, dreadlocks, mohawks or cornrows on students. Butler's school-based decision-making committee – ...

Here is yet another case of a school district caring more about what is on a kid’s head than what goes into it. Deborah Brown Community School, a Tulsa charter school, is in the news this week after ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A Louisville high school is under fire because of its policy regarding student's hair. According to Butler Traditional High School's handbook, students are not allowed to have ...

Dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, spikes: All will be allowed under a Palm Beach County school policy that will ban hair discrimination. School Board members agreed on Wednesday to approve a policy that ...

A Louisville, Ky., high school has retreated from a dress code policy that would have banned cornrows, twists, and dreadlocks—hairstyles commonly worn by African-Americans. The decision to suspend the ...

On the heels of reports that a Baltimore woman lost her job because of her blonde highlights comes another story about a 24-year-old woman who has been ordered to cut her dreadlocks or be fired.

RaShaun Garlington knew something was wrong when her 16-year-old son, Tyree Bayan, returned to her car minutes into his March job interview at Cool Crest Family Fun Center. "I can't work here," Tyree ...

Tyree Bayan, 16, had applied to work at the Cool Crest Family Fun Center in Missouri. When he went to his interview in March, he said the manager told him that his hair was a violation of company ...

Businesses are within their legal right to institute a grooming policy that requires employees to maintain hair in a professional manner. But it’s troubling that specific hairstyles are singled out ...