Discrimination based on hair texture and race-based hairstyles like braids, dreadlocks and twists, is now illegal in Michigan thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. A crowd of members from ...

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, ...

Darryl George, a 18-year-old junior, looks before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after serving a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair Monday, Sept. 18, ...

A video on social media authentically showed comedian Roseanne Barr wearing long, platinum dreadlocks and braids. While the comedian was indeed wearing long dreadlocks and braids, it turned out to be ...

*The U.S. Army has lifted its ban on dreadlocks, allowing black women in the branch to serve their country sporting whatever texture they choose, according to The New York Times. Initially, a ban ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A new law aims to stop hair discrimination in schools. The brave kid who inspired it: Jett Hawkins. Earlier this year the four-year-old was told that his braids violated his school's ...