Every year when summer rolls around, I get knots in the pit of my stomach just thinking about how I’m going to swim without getting my natural hair wet. Traditional swimming caps have never fully ...

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 ...

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California lawmakers are working on a bill to protect people from being discriminated against because of their hair. The so-called "Crown Act" would make it illegal for employers to enforce policies ...

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 ...

From now on the fashion-conscious can also keep cornrows and twists should they wish. The new rules follow close on the heels of the force allowing its airmen to grow beards for the first time in its ...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) asked the Florida Department of Education to take action against six schools in the state that ban dreadlocks and braids, saying the policy is racially ...

A Kentucky state prison warden issued a memo banning braids, cornrows or dreadlocks for inmates being moved in or out of a facility or in solitary confinement. Carlos Thurman, 50, alleges in a federal ...

The U.S. Army’s new ban on many types of ethnic hairstyles has African-American women who wear their coifs in dreadlocks, braids and cornrows in a twist. The Army’s regulations stipulate such guidance ...

Black servicewomen celebrated new regulations in the US Army that now allow them to wear their hair in dreadlocks. Critics complained for years that the Army's regulations placed an unfair burden on ...