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For black women throughout the world, “Don’t Touch My Hair” is much more than the pinnacle of Solange’s discography, it’s dogma—or an ominous warning that both life and limb can be lost should you ...

The agreement stipulated that the TSA would conduct training for agents on the “TSA's commitment to race neutrality in its security screening activities with special emphasis on hair pat-downs of ...

Two Transportation Security Administration agents got sacked for an alleged fondling scheme targeting nearly a dozen victims. The unidentified TSA employees allegedly used the Denver International ...

A transgender woman is at odds with American Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration after she says a routine security check turned into a nightmare. Shadi Petosky took to Twitter to ...

It has come to this. Already shoeless, beltless and waterless, more beleaguered air passengers will be holding their legs apart, raising their arms and effectively baring it all as they pass through U ...

I’m not a prude, but some of the controversy over Backscatter scanning at airports seems to equate my desire for privacy to being a full-blown Puritan. To be clear, I’m coming into this ...

Could the full-body scanners found at airports all across the country have a defect that makes them prone to signal false alarms on Black women? That’s what some employees at TSA are saying and there ...

Shuffling along the cold airport floor with no shoes on, I stepped into the scanner and raised my arms. I was nervous. Growing up in a low-income, single-parent household, I had always viewed travel ...