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As part of our series on International Women’s Day, we’re exploring how women identify and balance their personal identities. Photographer Nathan McGill – currently based in Birmingham – has been documenting what it means to be a Black woman embodying natural Afro hair; celebrating the beauty of African and Caribbean women through visual representation, in this case, photography.
Five-year-old Josiah Sharpe had been excluded from playtimes and school at Summerhill Academy School in Tipton, Sandwell, because his hair was considered too “extreme” for the school. Following a public outcry, he has now been allowed back into school, but with the same haircut he was initially excluded for.
A five-year-old boy from Sandwell has been banned from school on account of his haircut, despite his mother insisting he had it especially styled to hide a medical condition. Josiah Sharpe is missing out on his education and playtime in Summerhill Primary Academy in Tipton because his hair is considered too “extreme” for the school….