Two High School Students and Their Families, Represented by LDF and Akin Gump, File Lawsuit to Challenge Barbers Hill Independent School District's Discriminatory Hair Policy
May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020
NEW YORK, May 28 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release:
On May 22, Everett De'Andre Arnold, Sandy Arnold, and Cindy Bradford (on behalf of her minor son K.B.) filed a lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD), its Board of Trustees, and additional individual defendants challenging its discriminatory hair policy. Mr. Arnold and K.B. were informed by BHISD earlier this year that they must either cut their natural l . . .
On May 22, Everett De'Andre Arnold, Sandy Arnold, and Cindy Bradford (on behalf of her minor son K.B.) filed a lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD), its Board of Trustees, and additional individual defendants challenging its discriminatory hair policy. Mr. Arnold and K.B. were informed by BHISD earlier this year that they must either cut their natural l . . .