links for 2009-12-05

 

 

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links for 2009-12-05

via Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture by Carmen Van Kerckhove on 12/5/09

• Native American Boy's Right To Wear Braids Moves To U.S. Appeals Court–NPR
  A five-year-old Native American boy in Texas was punished for wearing his hair in two lengthy braids,

  The ACLU sued on the boy's behalf and, earlier this year, a federal district judge said the child had a constitutional right to wear his braids as an expression of his religion. On Friday, the case will be heard by the U.S. Appeals Court in New Orleans.

  (tags: via:cruelsecretary nativeamerican youth)

 

 

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