Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity’
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Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity’

A Texas school district superintendent defended the continued suspension of a Black student for his hairstyle in a full-page newspaper ad‚ paid for by an education foundation. Darryl George has been suspended repeatedly by the Barbers Hill Independent School District for his loc hairstyle. The teen's family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit saying the punishment violates the CROWN Act‚ an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair‚” which became law in Texas in...