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Tariffs to impact specialized Black hair care products

June 5, 2025
By Charlotte Kramon
Report for America

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Dr. Candice Matthews, left, listens as Texas state Rep. Ron Reynolds, right, with Darryl George, center, makes comments before a hearing regarding George's punishment for violating school dress code policy because of his hairstyle, Thursday Feb. 22, 2024, at the Chambers County Courthouse in Anahuac, Texas. A judge has ruled that George's months-long punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law prohibiting race-based hair discrimination. Photo credit: Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle via The Associated Press

National

Anger rises in Texas after judge OKs school’s punishment of Black student over hairstyle

February 23, 2024
By Cheyanne Mumphrey
The Associated Press

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Darryl George, an 18-year-old high school junior, stands outside a courthouse in Anahuac, Texas, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, following a court hearing over whether his Houston-area school district can continue to punish him for refusing to change his hairstyle. For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. To school administrators, strict dress codes can be tools for promoting uniformity and discipline. Photo credit: Lekan Oyekanmi, The Associated Press

National

School dress codes promote discipline, but many Black students see traces of racism

February 21, 2024
By Cheyanne Mumphrey
The Associated Press

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Darryl George, a 17-year-old high school junior in Mont Belvieu, Texas, walks to Barbers Hill High School after serving a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Photo credit: Michael Wyke, The Associated Press

National

Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs

December 7, 2023
By Cheyanne Mumphrey
The Associated Press

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Runner-up contestant Dayanira, 4, waits to go on stage to display her hairdo during an Afro hair contest in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, June 13, 2015. Behind closed doors and even in public, white Cubans talk disparagingly about black Cubans in ways that have become socially unacceptable in many other countries, describing them as criminals and forbidding their children from dating Afro-Cuban schoolmates. Photo credit: Desmond Boylan, The Associated Press

Arts & culture

How the surveillance of Black hair can kill a child’s spirit

October 10, 2023
By Nia T. Evans & Ariana Coghill
Mother Jones

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