Brian is a Boston-based Forbes breaking news reporter. The family of a suspended Black high school student outside Houston—who was suspended for his hairstyle—filed a federal civil rights suit against ...

Darryl George, left, a high school junior, and his mother Darresha George, right, talk with reporters before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after Darryl served a 5-day ...

BAYTOWN, Texas — Two dozen protesters gathered near a Texas superintendent’s home on Wednesday to support a Black teen who has been suspended for most of the school year over the length of his ...

A Texas superintendent doubled down on the district's decision to punish a Black student who wears dreadlocks for violating its dress code even after being faced with litigation. The superintendent of ...

Just when we thought that suspending students over their hairstyles would be left in 2023, a Texas superintendent has decided to take it to another level. After Barbers Hill High School student Darryl ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police in Oregon say a woman told officers that her boyfriend choked her with his dreadlocks. Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson says the unidentified woman was taken to a ...

Darryl George, 18, has been banned from attending regular classes. A judge ruled Thursday that the punishment faced by a Black high school student in Texas for refusing to change his hairstyle does ...

A judge in Texas said Thursday that a school’s suspension of a Black teenager because of his dreadlocks does not violate the CROWN Act, which forbids racial hair discrimination. State District Judge ...

The teen is dealing with in-school-suspension because he will not cut his hair. The family of a Black Texas high school student who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal lawsuit Saturday ...