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Monday, April 22, 2024 | Back issues
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HOUSTON — A Black high school senior in Texas is suing the Needville Independent School District and school officials for removing him from the student population and threatening to put him in a disciplinary alternative education program — which would prevent him from participating in his upcoming graduation ceremony — after he refused to cut his locs.

Read the complaint here.

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