dreadlocks
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Michigan Just Passed the Crown Act, Why Can’t the Rest of the Country?
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the law banning discrimination based on hair style or texture
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South Dakota High School To Black Student: Cut Your Dreadlocks Or Leave Our School
14-year-old freshman Braxton Schafer had been wearing his hair in locs in previous years before.
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Black Man Forced to Cut his Dreadlocks Sues a Kentucky State Prison
It seems hair discrimination goes beyond the workplace and schools.
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Texas School District Bars Black Student Over Braids
East Bernard Independent School District still has a racist dress code
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Jamaica's Supreme Court Rules That School Can Ban Child With Dreadlocks (No, We're Not Kidding)
If you’ve ever heard the statement ‘anti-Blackness is global’ and wondered what it truly meant, consider this news: the Supreme Court in Jamaica, an island whose population is around 80 percent Black people, has ruled in favor of a school that said a seven-year-old could not attend their classes unless she cut her dreadlocks. “I…