Except, it didn’t feel like armor. The first time I left my house after my mother had knotted my hair into dreadlocks, I was wracked by the catcalls of men in the street, wailing out “Empress ...

An extremely well-meaning woman, Tara Hartten, went into a Philadelphia hair and dreadlock salon, Rebel Rebel, and asked for her dog’s hair to be added into one of her dreadlocks.

The white San Francisco State student who was confronted by a black student over his hairstyle has come forward to defend his right to wear his hair in dreadlocks. In a video interview with the ...

In his newest novel, Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, Bert Ashe uses his own hair-locking experience to explain the history of dreadlocks, and unpack complicated issues of identity, gender, and ...

Banning employees from wearing their hair in dreadlocks isn't racial discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled. The 3-0 decision Thursday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a ...

A Texas elementary school is being accused of racist policies after asking a 6-year-old boy to cut his hair, which he wears in dreadlocks. It all started late last month when Jonathan Brown, a ...