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 ...

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, ...

You will not be able to matriculate through Hampton University’s MBA business program with bad grades, bad behavior or bad hair. Wait a minute: did you just write ‘bad hair?!? Yes, as in dreadlocks, ...

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 ...

Standing as a hairstyle with deep roots in Black culture, people have worn cornrow braids for centuries. Originating in Africa, cornrows represent not just a form of hair styling, but also a rich ...

Obsession with black hair is usually considered the provenance of black women, not black men. It is the women we see worrying about whether to go natural, relaxed or straightened—whether to weave, ...