A Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards asked the Supreme Court to let him sue for damages.

Dreadlocks don't meet that standard, said Camille Gear Rich, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law.

Damon Landor says his religious rights were violated under a law called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

In 2010, when Chastity Jones went in for a job interview at a call center for Catastrophe Management Solutions (CMS) in Mobile, Alabama, she wore a blue suit and short dreadlocks. She met the ...

Given dreadlocks’ rich history, it’s hard for one group to claim them, said Feminista Jones, writer, speaker and former wearer of locks. “Sure, white people can wear locs,” she said in an ...

Late last month, school officials at Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sent 7-year-old straight-A student Tiana Parker home crying. Her offense? Wearing dreadlocks. The school’s ...

School in Tulsa in August rescinded language banning dreadlocks%2C afros%2C mohawks; Charter school in Lorain%2C Ohio%2C in the summer proposed ban on certain styles ...