Black student suspended for locs hairstyle days after Crown Act takes effect

, boys may not wear long hair and must keep it shorter than their eyebrows and earlobes.

Reynolds said that while he has no issue with schools creating dress codes to maintain a level of decorum — schools regularly prohibit students from wearing hats, bare midriffs and clothes with offensive slogans, for instance — policies that make no room for racial, ethnic or cultural expression creates a “superiority” around Eurocentric standards.

Arnold, then an 18-year-old senior, would also be barred from prom and graduation if he did not cut his hair and

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