Black teen told to cut his locs by Texas school wins court ruling

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Black teen told to cut his locs by Texas school wins court ruling
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A federal judge in Texas blocks a school district from enforcing a dress code policy that prohibited a Black teenager from keeping his locs.

Kaden"has shown a substantial likelihood that his rights under the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment will be violated if his motion for a preliminary injunction is denied, and he has additionally shown that he will receive either inferior instruction or no instruction if his motion is denied," the court ruling states.

He also attended the Oscars as a guest of Matthew Cherry, the director of"Hair Love," and actress Gabrielle Union and her husband, retired NBA star Dwyane Wade. The couple were producers of the Academy Award-winning short film.Barbers Hill district, which has nearly 5,400 students, have said that the high school allows dreadlocks, also called locs, but has"a community-supported policy" governing the length of male students’ hair.

But the policy changed in December 2019, midway through Kaden's sophomore year, to restrict the length of hair when it was let down.that she believes the hair policy is racist. African Americans made up 3.1 percent of the school district's population in the 2017-18 school year.

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