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

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

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 ...

Justin Bieber has a polarizing new hairstyle, one that elicited both calls of cultural appropriation and praise amongst some of his peers: dreadlocks.. Although celebrities are known and admired ...

School in Tulsa in August rescinded language banning dreadlocks%2C afros%2C mohawks; Charter school in Lorain%2C Ohio%2C in the summer proposed ban on certain styles ...

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 ...

A school that said a student couldn’t attend classes if she didn’t cut her dreadlocks did not infringe on the child’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Jamaica ruled Friday.. The ...