By Faith Fistler for Kent State News Lab.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Kent State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. The first time Tyana Barton was singled out because of her hair was when she was told to straighten it before a dance recital. "That was like the first time in maybe 10 years I ve ever had to straighten my hair. " .
Judicial ethics regulators in North Carolina have dropped their investigation of a state supreme court justice who told a legal publication that her newly elected colleagues have an allegiance “to their ideology, not to the institution.”