'The length of locs have no bearing on students' capacity to learn, yet these wholly arbitrary grooming policies limit the mobility of Black children in public and private spaces...and strike at the freedom and dignity of Black people,' the lawsuit states.
Actress Gabrielle Union and her husband, retired NBA star Dwyane Wade — who were producers of the Academy Award-winning short film"Hair Love" — also invited him and his mother to the Academy Awards, which they attended in February., has said he has worn dreadlocks for years like a lot of men in his family, and that he always followed the school's dress code by tying them up.
The lawsuit asserts that black students are and have been disproportionately targeted and penalized for violating"facially race-neutral grooming policies that are designed to, and have the effect of, profiling, singling out, and burdening" black children for wearing their hair in its natural state, including in locs. It notes that the school district is 69 percent white and 3 percent black.
The lawsuit says the students were faced with the"impossible choice of either suppressing their cultural heritage" and black identity by cutting their natural hair or forfeiting their right to equal educational and extracurricular opportunities.
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