“Hair discrimination is not a hypothetical issue, this happens.” said Democrat Leader, Fentrice Driskell. Florida lawmakers are pushing for the Crown Act to protect students from hair discrimination ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Texas judge ruled Thursday that the suspension of a Houston-area Black teenager over his hair length didn’t violate the CROWN ...

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, ...

Darryl George, left, a high school junior, and his mother Darresha George, right, talk with reporters before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after Darryl served a 5-day ...

MONT BELVIEU, Texas (KTRK) -- Barbers Hill ISD is asking a judicial court to clarify the terms of the CROWN Act, a new state law that prohibits hair discrimination at school and work. This comes after ...

A Black teenager in Texas repeatedly suspended for his dreadlocks will get his day in court Thursday in a case that advocates say has broad implications for racial hair discrimination. Darryl George, ...

A judge in Texas said Thursday that a school’s suspension of a Black teenager because of his dreadlocks does not violate the CROWN Act, which forbids racial hair discrimination. State District Judge ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas on Saturday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state's governor and attorney general over his ongoing suspension by his ...

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - A former South Fulton police officer is suing the City of South Fulton claiming gender and religious discrimination. The lawsuit filed Monday on the officer's behalf claims he was ...

After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education ...

ANAHUAC, Texas -- A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in the Houston area can continue being punished by his district for ...

A Texas judge ruled Thursday that the suspension of a Houston-area Black teenager over his hair length didn’t violate the CROWN Act. 18-year-old Darryl George was place on in-school suspension for ...