Nicole Pyles, a teenager at Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina, was told by umpires in a softball game to either remove beads from her hair or that she wouldn't be able to participate ...

Nicole Pyles, a 16-year-old Black student in North Carolina, says an umpire asked her to remove her hair beads if she wanted to keep playing softball.

The rosary—in these hands—is anything but holy. But for millions of believers, the beads, which provide an aide-mémoire for a sequence of devotional prayers, are a widely recognized symbol of ...