The New York State Public High School Athletic Association voted this week to allow student athletes across the state to wear hair beads during competitions. Students will be allowed to wear hair ...

A Black softball player was forced to cut her hair to remove hair beads in order to keep playing in a high school game in Durham, North Carolina, last month. Two high school umpires approached Nicole ...

Capital Region (WRGB) — A controversial hair bead policy affecting the Capital Region's student athletes, put on hold on Tuesday. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) ...

Nicole Pyles said she was competing in a softball game when she was told by an umpire she needed to remove her hair beads because they were covering her jersey number Jason Hahn is a former Human ...

Guidance prohibiting student track athletes from wearing beads in their hair has taken a lot of coaches by surprise. They say the rules obviously target Black students. Guidance circulated Sunday ...

The National Federation of State High School Associations, the governing body for most high school sports in the U.S., will discuss the clause in its softball rulebook that recently led to a Black ...

A North Carolina high school softball player was forced to cut her hair beads during a game last month, sparking outrage. Nicole Pyles, who is Black, was playing for Hillside High School in Durham ...

The Black athlete's coach said the referees "embarrassed" the player about her hair beads. New Jersey referees allegedly violated the state’s CROWN Act after they barred a Black high school basketball ...

The girls on the Mohonasen Track team won all three of their meets and the boys won two out of three, but today’s meet meant way more than outrunning the competition. [anvplayer video=”5105580″ ...