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2. A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school ...

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   A Black high school student in Texas has served more than two weeks of in-school suspensions for wearing twisted dreadlocks to school. When he arrived Monday with the same hairstyle, he was ...

3. Texas school hair policy that left Black teen suspended for ...

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   In 2020, two students filed lawsuits after they were suspended over the length of their dreadlocks. Both students withdrew from the school, and the lawsuits are pending. One of them eventually ...

4. Dreadlocks, cornrows and natural hairstyles could get new ...

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   There have been highly publicized cases around the country involving hairstyles with racial overtones. In April 2021, a Black softball player at Hillside High School in Durham had to cut out her ...

5. Discrimination based on hair texture in the United States

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   However, the black pride movement of the 1960s and 1970s made the afro a popular hairstyle among African Americans and considered a symbol of resistance. [5] In 1964, the U.S. federal government passed the Civil Rights Act , which prohibited employment discrimination based on race, but it was left to interpretation by the courts as to what this ...

6. Dreadlocks - Wikipedia

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   Black students in England are prohibited from wearing natural hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, braids, twists, and other African and Black hairstyles. Black students are suspended from school, are stereotyped, and receive negative treatment from teachers. [199]

7. Discrimination based on hair texture - Wikipedia

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   Now enjoying Sundays off, Black women would take the day to style their hair, uncovering it for church services but keeping it wrapped Monday through Saturday. As traditional styling tools were not available to them, Black women began to use butter, kerosene, and bacon grease and combs meant for livestock to style their hair.

8. What to know about the Texas trial involving a Black teen ...

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   In 2020, two students filed lawsuits after they were suspended over the length of their dreadlocks. Both students withdrew from the school but the lawsuits are pending. One of them eventually ...

9. Barbers Hill High School - Wikipedia

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   Other students of the high school also spoke out against the policy, describing it as gender discrimination, since girls are allowed to have long hair, while boys are not. [18] A federal judge ruled that the district’s hair policy was discriminatory. [19] On 31 August, 2023, another student was suspended over his dreadlocks.