A Black Texas High School Student Has Been Suspended Again For Refusing To Cut His Locs

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Michael Wyke/AP By Melissa Noel ·Updated December 12, 2023

In Texas, a Black high school student who had been suspended for much of the school year for wearing a natural hair>according to NPR.

His family says Darryl was later referred to in-school suspension, according to Candice Matthews, according to a family spokesperson.

The school cited that Darryl’s locs “out of compliance with the BH dress code when let down,” according

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