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 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, ...

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 ...

A Birmingham student was left “angry and upset” after being turned away from a temping agency because she has dreadlocks. Cheyanne Arnold was told by TempTribe that her hair was unprofessional and did ...

A ban on learners sporting Afros, dreadlocks and braids is still in place at several state and private schools despite a fierce storm erupting on social media this week over Pretoria High School for ...