ADHer styling was no longer enough for the school, Sandy Arnold told Fox 26 Houston. African Americans comprise 3.1 percent of the school district’s population, according to school district data. The black population in Mont Belvieu, the city in which the school district is located, is 8.5 percent, according to census data. ADADGerry Monroe, the executive director of the United Urban Alumni Association, attended the school board meeting on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to scold the school board for not understanding the religious and cultural meaning of dreadlocks. “You can’t just let people walk all over you or anything like that,” he told KHOU-11.

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2020 16:08 UTC