Transcript: [Faaji intro] Hello and welcome to Afro Archives Show Twelve “Dread, This”. Firstly a thank you to the ladies who preceded me here on Wandsworth Radio’s Female Friday, Nicolette WilsonClarke with Mind Your Business and Chloe De Save with She Speaks. The last couple of weeks on Afro Archives,
was my sister locs special. We gathered
voices of women to share about their locs, what it means to them and also to comment on the Chastity Jones case in the US, where an African American woman was asked to cut her locs, in order to get a job, but it was NOT held as an act of race discrimination by the courts for the employer to ask Chastity Jones to do this.
Today, we are still in locs territory, and we’re focusing on dreadlocks. We’re also still inspired by events reported from the US. This week’s show is led by the decision of a school called “A Book’s Christian Academy”. The school is in Florida. And it was founded by a woman called Sue Book. What happened, for anyone who missed this earlier in August, was that a 6 year old boy was sent home on his first day of school because he had his hair in dreadlocks. The School said that they have had a rule, since the 70s, © 2018 Ayesha Casely-Hayford
