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 ...

Antonio Hegwood (pictured at left) may have to shave his head to keep his job. A few weeks ago, his supervisors at a St. Louis gas station told him not to come back unless he got rid of his dreadlocks ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 7-year-old girl was forced to change schools this week after her elementary school sent her home for having the wrong hairstyle. According to KOKI, Tiana Parker was pulled out of classes at Deborah ...

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 ...

A Missouri teen was denied a job at a local arcade because of his dreadlocks -- not for the hairstyle itself, but for the length of the strands, The Kansas City Star reported. Tyree Bayan, 16, had ...