DURHAM, N.C. -- It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads ...

*Nicole Pyles, 16, was standing near home base waiting to bat for her Durham N.C. high school softball team when one of the umpires stopped the game, approached her and made a demand. If she wanted to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Back in April, Hillside High School student-athlete Nicole Pyles was sporting her box braids with beads during a softball game and was reprimanded by an umpire, causing ...

Student says she was forced to cut off her braids for softball game A Black high school softball player said she felt humiliated when she was forced to cut her braids in the middle of a game because ...

A Black high school student in North Carolina was forced to cut beads out of her braids in the middle of a recent softball game in order to keep playing — and her family believes she was singled out ...