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BREAKING: LDF won a major #naturalhair discrimination VICTORY that gives K.B., Black high school student & cousin to #DeAndreArnold, the right to attend classes regularly as opposed to being held in indefinite in-school suspension due to his natural hair.
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This victory comes after a three-day long virtual preliminary injunction hearing, and decades upon decades of LDF cases seeking to undo discriminatory, anti-Black dress and grooming policies. 
The practice of institutionalizing discriminatory grooming policies dates back to desegregation. LDF’s “Status of School Desegregation” report from 1970 describes some of the policies that were implemented as Black students began attending formerly all-white schools.
