Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The February 2021 prison memo sent by Warden Brad Adams was clear. "Effective immediately" inmates in the medium-security, ...

Jediah Batts, a 9-year-old African-American boy, wears his hair in cornrows. Were Jediah a student at any public school in New York, his right to keep his hairstyle would be protected by state law.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Update, 2:20 p.m.: A Kentucky high school has suspended a controversial school policy banning students from wearing their hair in dreadlocks and cornrows. According to WAVE 3 News, ...

Hairstyles such as dreadlocks, cornrows and afros could soon be expressly allowed and protected against discrimination in Wake County schools. The Wake County school board’s policy committee backed ...