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 ...

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 federal appeals court has ruled that banning an employee from wearing their hair in locs is not racial discrimination. In a 3-0 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a cased brought ...

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 ...

Recently, while shuffling through a stack of old family pictures, a strange young girl’s face appeared, and startled me. There she was—a wide-eyed teenager with a dark cornucopia of dreadlocks falling ...

Counting Crows were a phenomenon back in the '90s, and the rock band is still making music with longtime frontman Adam Duritz ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jimmy Butler might've gone back to his usual hairstyle before the season started, but what happened to those dreadlocks from the offseason? The Heat forward caught social media by surprise when he ...

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 ...