Many felt Butler High's hair policy was discriminating against African-Americans — -- As 15-year-old Ashanti Scott knows, hair can say so much about how people see themselves. A cheerleader at ...

For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Nowhere have school rules on ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Administrators at a South Dakota high school told 14-year-old freshman Braxton Schafer’s parents on Friday that he must cut his hair or leave the school. Braxton, who is Black, ...