HS softball player forced to cut hair per NFHS rules to keep playing: ‘I feel humiliated, embarrassed’

A Black softball player was forced to cut her hair to remove hair beads in order to keep playing in a high school game in Durham, North Carolina, last month. 

Two high school umpires approached Nicole Pyles and her Hillside High School coaches in the second inning of a senior night game against rival school Jordan on April 19, The News & Observer reported.  Read More