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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, 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
Social Justice

Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

  • October 12, 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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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
Social Justice

A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle; the school says it wasn’t discrimination

  • September 20, 2023
  • By Cheyanne Mumphrey & Juan Lozano
  • The Associated Press
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