Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A father is taking legal action against a school for banning his 6-year-old son for his hairstyle. Clinton Stanley of Apopka, Fla.

The past couple of years, I conducted an informal sociological study of how strangers treat me based on my hairstyle. I didn't set out to do this, but being a person who switches hairdos with the ...

Butler Traditional High is proposing a new hair policy in its dress code that no longer would ban afros, dreadlocks, mohawks or cornrows on students. Butler's school-based decision-making committee – ...

Here is yet another case of a school district caring more about what is on a kid’s head than what goes into it. Deborah Brown Community School, a Tulsa charter school, is in the news this week after ...

Dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, spikes: All will be allowed under a Palm Beach County school policy that will ban hair discrimination. School Board members agreed on Wednesday to approve a policy that ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A Louisville high school is under fire because of its policy regarding student's hair. According to Butler Traditional High School's handbook, students are not allowed to have ...