A Must-Read Letter By Melissa Harris Perry About Dreadlocks

Last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, seven-year-old Tiana Parker was forced to choose between her hair -- adorable, short dreadlocks held back with a bow -- and her school, which deemed her hairstyle "unacceptable." Rather than cut off her hair, she decided to switch schools. Our feelings about this were summed up by Melissa Harris Perry, who read an open letter to Parker titled, "To a black girl whose hair was deemed 'unacceptable.'" The letter reads, "For the record, Tiana, your hair is not distracti...