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Family of Black student suspended for his hairstyle is suing Texas officials
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 they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.
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A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn't discrimination
Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, was initially suspended the same week Texas outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles.
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State Crime Lab: Noose Discovered at Office Not ‘Amenable' for DNA Testing
New details are emerging about a Black employee who alleged racial discrimination and retaliation at his union job. The worker, Rich Summers, said he found a noose on his desk chair when he arrived at the National Association of Government Employees office building last November. The discovery launched an investigation by the Quincy Police Department. When we first reported on…
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‘Terror, Trauma and Rage': Worker Reports Noose Found at Union Office Desk
Rich Summers was hired as a union representative in March 2020 at the National Association of Government Employees in Quincy, Massachusetts. The position at NAGE took him on the road to meet with government employees at RMV branches around the state. “I loved the job,” Summers told the NBC10 Investigators while sitting at the kitchen table inside his Arlington home….