DURHAM, N.C. -- It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads ...

*Nicole Pyles, 16, was standing near home base waiting to bat for her Durham N.C. high school softball team when one of the umpires stopped the game, approached her and made a demand. If she wanted to ...

A Durham high school softball player is demanding an end to hair discrimination in schools after she said she was forced to cut her hair during a game. The incident happened on April 19 at Hillside ...

Student says she was forced to cut off her braids for softball game A Black high school softball player said she felt humiliated when she was forced to cut her braids in the middle of a game because ...