Video above: North Carolina student says she was forced to cut her braidsIt was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North ...

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 ...

An American teenager has been forced to cut off her hair during a softball game in a “humiliating” ultimatum by umpires. Nicole Pyles, 16, who wears her hair in beads, was playing softball in Durham, ...

PITTSBURGH, March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was tired of the same basic hair beads day after day and having to spend money and countless hours getting my hair beaded. I also thought there should be ...

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association voted this week to allow student athletes across the state to wear hair beads during competitions. Students will be allowed to wear hair ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Back in April, Hillside High School student-athlete Nicole Pyles was sporting her box braids with beads during a softball game and was reprimanded by an umpire, causing ...

Nicole Pyles, 16, of Durham, N.C., says that a rule banning the use of hair beads by student athletes is discriminatory. By Johnny Diaz A North Carolina high school softball player says she wants to ...

Her hair, braided with beads and tied in a bun at the bottom of her neck, was the last thing on her mind. It quickly, however, became a focal point of the April 19 game. First, a coach on the opposing ...

A Hope Mills mother says her 6-year-old daughter was not allowed to play soccer because of her hair. She says her daughter was brushed off without an explanation. A Hope Mills mother says her ...