The school and the Virgo family have been fighting this battle for the past two years. This Friday, Jamaica’s high court said that Kensington Primary School was well within its rights to require a ...

“Rasta Rapunzel,” let down your dreads. A Jamaican man revealed he has been growing his dreadlocks for over 40 years and had to stand on a roof to show them off. In the 45-second clip posted on ...

Sanneta Myrie is bringing dreadlocks to the Miss World Pageant for the first time, and she couldn’t look more stunning doing it. Mryie, a 24-year-old doctor, was crowned Miss Jamaica in August and ...

If you’ve ever heard the statement ‘anti-Blackness is global’ and wondered what it truly meant, consider this news: the Supreme Court in Jamaica, an island whose population is around 80 percent Black ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Sherine Virgo was excited when her 5-year-old daughter was accepted to a prestigious public school in a suburb of the Jamaican capital. But when the mother attended an orientation ...

A school that said a student couldn’t attend classes if she didn’t cut her dreadlocks did not infringe on the child’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Jamaica ruled Friday. The issue began ...

One 5-year-old will start classes this week at Kensington Primary School in Kingston, Jamaica, with her dreadlocks intact after a legal battle that has gone all the way to the island’s Supreme Court.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s high court ruled Friday that a school was within its rights to demand that a girl cut her dreadlocks to attend classes, a surprise decision that touched on issues of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Sherine Virgo was excited when her 5-year-old daughter was accepted to a prestigious public school in the Jamaican capital. But when the mother attended an orientation over the ...

This Friday, Jamaica’s high court said that Kensington Primary School was well within its rights to require a 5-year-old to cut off her dreadlocks before attending classes. Kensington Primary told ...