CROWN Act News
Legislation Banning Hair Bias Gains Momentum in More States
(CNN) Four-year-old Gus Hawkins IV, affectionately known as Jett, attends a private school in Chicago that did not approve of his braids and called his mother in March saying her son was violating a school policy that bans braids, locs, twists, and other natural hairstyles on male students.
A Black Softball Player Says She Was Forced to Cut Off Her Hair Beads at a Game
(CNN) It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads and tied in a bun at the bottom of her neck, was the last thing on her mind.