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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
An unidentified young man wears his hair in dreadlocks in this file photo. A Texas school district won't change its policy on long hair — effectively continuing a de facto ban on dreadlocks, attorneys for suspended students told NPR.

Texas School Board Keeps Grooming Code That Led To Suspension Of Black Students

Jul 22, 2020
The Barbers Hill Independent School District forbids male students from wearing their hair long. Two Black students were suspended when they refused to cut their dreadlocks.
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Code Switch
For many black people, hair and race are inextricably interwoven.

Dreadlocks Decision Raises Another Question: What Is Race?

Oct 23, 2016
Many experts agree with an appeals court's decision last month that dreadlocks aren't a common racial characteristic. But left undecided: What's a common racial characteristic?
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