One month ago, Free People, the retailer that specializes in bohemian maxi dresses and ripping off Native American designs, started selling what they called "clip-in dreadlocks" — and it wasn't even ...

Refusing to hire someone who has dreadlocks is legal, thanks to a recent ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed a lawsuit against ...

Fans accused the “Peaches” singer of cultural appropriation for styling his hair in dreadlocks last month Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the ...

Justin Bieber (seen at left in early April) debuted dreadlocks for the second time on Sunday (right), sparking ire on social media. Instagram It’s too late now to say sorry. Five years after being ...

A Supreme Court that's protective of religous rights nonetheless seemed wary of allowing a Rastafarian to seek damages from prison guards who shaved his dreadlocks.

In this nation where a Dylann Roof casually kills nine black people and we are at risk of electing a President who refers to “the African Americans” as if we were in a diorama, we are to be offended, ...

A father is taking legal action against a school for banning his 6-year-old son for his hairstyle. Clinton Stanley of Apopka, Fla., filed a complaint against A Book’s Christian Academy for illegal ...

MONT BELVIEU, Texas -- A Texas high school student, who is African American with Trinidadian descent, won't be allowed to return to school or attend his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his ...

Justin Bieber debuted a new hairstyle that looks like dreadlocks over the weekend and people are now accusing the singer of cultural appropriation. Bieber shared an image on Sunday that showed him ...

DeAndre Arnold was told to cut his dreadlocks in order to walk in his high school graduation in Texas Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of several things, among them race. The law, however, doesn't define "race." It also doesn ...

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 issue began ...