The CROWN Act, in effect since September, prohibits race-based hair discrimination. A trial is set to be held Thursday to determine if a Black high school student in Texas can continue being ...

Last month, State District Judge Chap Cain III in Anahuac ordered the case to go to trial ... prohibiting race-based hair discrimination at work, school and in housing facilities in the state.

a law which protects from hair discrimination. The judge ruled on Wednesday that the trial is set to take place on Feb. 22. which will determine if the Barbers Hill Independent School District ...

Sponsor Message However, George’s claim of sex discrimination ... a similar case from 1970 in which the judge concluded that “the presence and enforcement of the hair-cut rule causes far ...

The incident recalls debates over hair discrimination in schools and the workplace and is already testing the state's newly enacted CROWN Act, which took effect Sept. 1. The law, an acronym for ...

Meanwhile, George’s lawyers argued in the federal lawsuit that the school’s dress code violated the CROWN Act, a Texas state law that prohibited race-based discrimination of hair, but a state ...

The Supreme Court's decision, which landed amid a backlash to diversity programs, could increase "reverse discrimination" ...

Legal experts told Salon that while the axed racial discrimination claim didn ... that George's lawyer could not provide any case law that held hair length "is protected as expressive conduct ...

Black Arizonans won protection from discrimination based on their natural hair or hairstyles Friday after ... we are saying that this will not be the case in Arizona. That if you work for us ...

Hair discrimination can present in many different ... their identity to quiet the acceptance and safety that is needed." Case in point: telling a student to change their natural hair, or the ...

Related: Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discrimination However ... Brown acknowledged that the state’s case had its issues, invoking a similar case ...

aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces. Brown acknowledged that the state’s case had its issues, invoking a similar case from 1970 in which the judge concluded that ...