
The Policing of Black Hair in Our Schools: Policy or Prejudice?
-by Bhavna Ramji and Tim Fish Hodgson In August 2016, Black learners at Pretoria High School for Girls organised a protest against school authorities preventing them from wearing their hair in Afros. Public discussion on the topic has been heated, and in some cases, entirely misinformed. Radio host John Robbie, for example, took it […]