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A Black 14-year-old high school freshman in South Dakota is being forced to either trim his loc hairstyle or find a new school.

A Catholic school system based in South Dakota has defended its recently announced policy requiring male students to have short hair or dreadlocks, which has garnered controversy.

The parents of a Black South Dakota high school student are upset that their son's school told them that their child must cut his hair or leave the school.

A Black South Dakota teen feels he has no choice but to switch schools after refusing to cut his hair, his mother said.

A Catholic school system based in South Dakota has defended its recently announced policy requiring male students to have short hair or dreadlocks, which has garnered controversy.

A Catholic school system based in South Dakota has defended its recently announced policy requiring male students to have short hair or dreadlocks, which has garnered controversy.

A Catholic school system based in South Dakota has defended its recently announced policy requiring male students to have short hair or dreadlocks, which has garnered controversy.

A South Dakota High School has allegedly threatened a Black teen with expulsion if the doesn’t cut his dreadlocks. 

A Black student will leave his South Dakota high school at the end of the semester due to a new policy that would require him to shorten his long, dread-locked hair.

A Black teenager will leave his high school rather than obey an order to cut his locs, an ultimatum his father finds "culturally biased."