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School in Tulsa in August rescinded ... a TV reporter asked the little girl with a bright pink bow in her hair. "Because they didn't like my dreads," she sobbed, wiping her tears.
Seven-year-old Tiana Parker was told her dreadlocks defied her ... It's about a little girl named Tiana Parker. She was in school earlier this month when her parents got a call.
The current fashion choices for tween and young teen girls are too sexy, too skimpy, too short. A mom of three who goes by the name “Miss Lori” online says what she calls the “Shorty McShort ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica's high court ruled Friday that a school was within its rights to demand that a girl cut her dreadlocks to attend classes, a surprise decision that touched on issues ...
A black 12-year-old girl reported that three white boys had pinned her down in a school playground and cut off her dreadlocks. It was the same private Christian school in Virginia where the vice ...
A 7-year-old girl was forced to change schools ... pulled out of classes at Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oklahoma for having dreadlocks. Officials from the charter school declined ...
“No dreads,” administrator Sue Book said. “All of our boys have short hair … It’s the style of hair. We don’t allow it. We never have.” The school noted that 95 percent of its ...