A 12-year-old black girl from Virginia has recanted an accusation that her white sixth grade classmates pinned her down and cut off her dreadlocks, her family said in a statement Monday. Stephen ...

A Supreme Court that's protective of religous rights nonetheless seemed wary of allowing a Rastafarian to seek damages from ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A video has gone viral showing an African American student at San Francisco State University confronting a white student over his dreadlocks. Campus police are continuing their ...

One month ago, Free People, the retailer that specializes in bohemian maxi dresses and ripping off Native American designs, started selling what they called "clip-in dreadlocks" — and it wasn't even ...

In this nation where a Dylann Roof casually kills nine black people and we are at risk of electing a President who refers to “the African Americans” as if we were in a diorama, we are to be offended, ...

Refusing to hire someone who has dreadlocks is legal, thanks to a recent ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed a lawsuit against ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that banning an employee from wearing their hair in locs is not racial discrimination. In a 3-0 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a cased brought ...

Jimmy Butler might've gone back to his usual hairstyle before the season started, but what happened to those dreadlocks from the offseason? The Heat forward caught social media by surprise when he ...

Recently, while shuffling through a stack of old family pictures, a strange young girl’s face appeared, and startled me. There she was—a wide-eyed teenager with a dark cornucopia of dreadlocks falling ...

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of several things, among them race. The law, however, doesn't define "race." It also doesn ...