Civil rights advocates say there is a growing problem of discrimination against African-Americans — adults at work as well as children at school — due to their hair.
A 6-year-old boy in Florida was turned away from a private Christian academy on his first day of school because his hair extended below his ears.from a Catholic school for wearing braids.
Recent studies have linked the ingredients in relaxers, which chemically straighten hair, to uterine fibroids, cancer, and other illnesses. Mintel, a market research firm, estimates that retail sales of at-home relaxers declined 22.7 percent from 2016 to 2018. Schools around the country, with their widely varying rules on appearance and dress, can sometimes be particularly rigid about hair.
Dressed in navy pants, a button-down shirt and tie — the uniform for his new school — his pride showed in a video of the occasion filmed by his dad in August 2018.
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