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, ...

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 ...

It seems hair discrimination goes beyond the workplace and schools. Here’s the kicker: at no point during the transfer process was Thurman’s hair searched. They even put the cut locs in a bag to go ...

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 ...

California Governor Ron Newsom signed a bill Wednesday barring discrimination against natural black hairstyles, including dreadlocks and braids (Pictures: AP) A sweeping new law has banned college or ...

A Florida high school came under fire last week for prohibiting a Black honors student from walking across the stage at his high school graduation without cutting his dreadlocks. Abeka Academy in ...

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 ...