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☆ Black Student’s Suspension Over Hairstyle Didn’t Violate Law, Texas Judge Rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Christine Hauser | Patrick Mcgee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that a school district’s dress code, which it used to suspend a Black student last year for refusing to change the way he wears his hair, did not violate a state law meant to prohibit race-based discrimination against people based on their hairstyle. The student, Darryl George, 18, has locs, or long ropelike strands of hair, that he pins on his head in a barrel roll, a protective style that his mother said reflected Black culture. He was separated from his classmates, given disciplinary notices, placed in in-school suspension and sent to an off-campus program. The hearing on Thursday, in the 253rd Judicial District Court in Anahuac, was in response to a lawsuit filed in September by the Barbers Hill Independent School District. The act, which took effect on Sept. 1, says a school district policy “may not discriminate against a hair texture or protective hairstyle commonly or historically associated with race.” It does not specifically mention hair length.

Persons: Darryl George, George, Cain III, Darresha George Organizations: Hill High School, 253rd, Independent School District, Texas CROWN Locations: Texas, Mont Belvieu, Houston, Anahuac

☆ A Black student suspended over his locs hairstyle says he feels like he's falling behind at a disciplinary school the district sent him to
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Cheyanne Mumphrey | Annie Ma | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Darryl George says he was sent to a disciplinary school after refusing to cut off his locs. George's Texas high school suspended him in September, saying his hairstyle violated school policy. AdvertisementAdvertisementFor more than a month, Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, spent each school day sitting by himself in punishment over his hairstyle. George on Thursday attended his first day at the disciplinary school, where he sits in a cubicle and does schoolwork. "I hope I can start being a kid again, start living my life, start playing football again and enjoy my year, my last few years in high school," he said.

Persons: Darryl George, —, he's, George, Darresha George, Michael Wyke, Darryl, Candice Matthews, Greg Poole, Allie Booker, Renuka Rege, Rege, Ashley Sawyer, Booker, Darryl's Organizations: Service, Associated Press, Hill High School, Thursday, Advancement Locations: George's Texas, Texas, Houston, Mont Belvieu , Texas

☆ A Black student was suspended over his locs hairstyle. Now his family is threatening to call Child Protective Services on the Texas school.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Darryl George was suspended from his Texas high school over the length of his locs hairstyle. He was given another round of suspension, a civil rights activist helping his family, Dr. Candice Matthews, told Insider. "Daryl is sitting on a stool, a stool in a cubby," Darresha George told Insider. Bloom told Insider that the district's policy on hair length does not violate the Crown Act. His hair is a connection to God," Matthews said, adding that Darryl's dad's hair, stepdad's hair, and brother's hair is woven into his own.

Persons: Darryl George, he's, George, Candice Matthews, Darresha, Daryl, Darresha George, He's, Allie Booker, that's, David Bloom, Bloom, Booker, Rhetta Bowers, Matthews Organizations: Child Protective Services, Service, Hill High School, CPS, Protective Services, Services, New York Times Locations: Texas, Wall, Silicon, Houston

☆ In Texas, a Black High School Student Is Suspended Over His Hair Length
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Christine Hauser | More About Christine Hauser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Soon after starting his junior year last month at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, Darryl George was separated from his classmates because of the way he wears his hair, his mother and a lawyer said. Each morning, he is asked by officials at the school, about 30 miles east of Houston, whether he has cut his hair yet, she said. “He is actually getting singled out,” said Ms. George. “They are personally stopping him, ‘Did he cut his hair?’ Asking him at the door.”Darryl has locs, or long ropelike strands of hair, that he pins on his head in a barrel roll, a protective style that reflects Black culture, Ms. George said. On Aug. 31, about two weeks after school started, school officials told her that his hair length, even though pinned, violated the dress code.

Persons: Darryl George, Darryl, Darresha George, ”, George, “, ‘ Organizations: Hill High School Locations: Mont Belvieu , Texas, Houston

☆ This teenager is breaking records at soccer and training with the boys — and she's hungry for more
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

I think I worked very hard, I put my head down and continued to work," said 18-year-old Danelle Tan. The perception that soccer is a "male sport" isn't new, but Tan said she believes that's changing. Snakes and laddersTan knows all about breaking barriers — she's already made history more than once at a young age. I don't think there's anybody in the entire world who can be motivated every single day ... "I don't think there's anybody in the entire world who can be motivated every single day.

One of two state agencies responsible for pushing out millions of dollars in federal infrastructure funds said it could be at least mid-to-late 2023 before any allocations roll out. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat, has said the price tag to overhaul the city’s water infrastructure could balloon into the billions. This year, the Mississippi Legislature created a $450 million water infrastructure funding program with money the state received through the Congressional Covid relief package that passed in 2021. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is administering the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program. Sam Mozee, director of the Mississippi Urban Research Center at Jackson State University, says his team is tracking what happens with funding going forward.

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