Black High School Softball Player Forced to Cut Hair

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A Black high school softball player says she feels "humiliated" and "embarrassed" after she was forced to cut her hair to remove hair beads in order to keep playing in a high school game in Durham, NC, last month. 

Nicole Pyles was told by two umpires, as well as her Hillside High School coaches, in the second inning of her senior night game against rival Jordan High School, that she would need to cut her hair. 

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