The family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturday against the state's governor and attorney general, alleging ...

But Mr George refused to cut his braided dreadlocks, with the family citing its cultural significance in the black community. Last year Texas ... and the two students' families sued.

parent Stanley Burkhead asked at a board meeting in August Seven students are suing a Texas school district over its dress-code policy banning boys from having long hair. School officials ...

(Photo courtesy of Trinity University) SAN ANTONIO (CN) — A Texas mother has sued a private ... university officials nor Howerton’s criminal defense attorney, John Hunter, replied to requests for ...

A Black man whose arrest by Galveston police last year thrust him into the national spotlight because bystanders filmed the horseback-mounted officers leading him with a rope “as though he was a slave ...

Defying expectations, a Supreme Court decision curtailing race-based admissions still had a relatively small impact at some ...

Texas has executed an inmate for killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard nearly 20 years ago. Court rejects Black Texas ... row inmate has sued state prison officials to allow ...

DALLAS, Texas — The family of 20-year-old Aresly Jaramillo plans to sue the Dallas Police Department ... also be created in her name for a Texas student wanting to go to college to focus on ...

Lee and Shakespeare,” officials said at ... return to the public school her family felt had fallen short of her needs. And FPD will have one fewer Black student. In late June, Cookie’s ...

and election officials don’t have the authority to question a voter’s reasoning. College students registered at a residence in Texas, such as a parent’s home, but studying out of state can ...

Amanda Zurawski, who sued Texas over its restrictive abortion ... leading roles in Republican outreach to the Latino and Black voters. Texas will have a considerable presence off the DNC main ...