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 ...

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 ...

A rule forbidding “extravagant and unusual haircuts, including dreadlocks and braids” at Gisborne Boys’ High School has prompted a local woman to complain to the race relations commissioner and the ...

A city council in North Carolina has unanimously passed an ordinance that aims to protect workers from discrimination against hairstyles such as braids, dreadlocks or afros.The Durham City Council on ...

My picture appears with my column in the Chicago Tribune three times a week. But if most readers happened to pass me in a hallway, they probably wouldn’t recognize me. That’s because for me and many ...

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 ...