Sagging Pants

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September 11, 2021
Critics have deemed Balenciaga's latest sweatpant design to be an appropriation of the “sagging” pant style popularized by Black people.
June 5, 2019
According to data from the Shreveport Police Department, 699 Black men have violated a Louisiana law that targets people wearing…
February 21, 2018
South Carolina legislators are planning to make it illegal for people to wear sagging pants in public, according to WLTX.com Lawmakers in
July 6, 2016
On Tuesday, the Timmonsville Town Council in South Carolina passed an ordinance which would ban sagging pants...
March 18, 2016
A high school sophomore in Alabama was tired of boys sagging their pants and decided to do something about it...
December 9, 2015
Two high school seniors in Tennessee are going to spend 48 hours in jail, just for violating the school dress…
May 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Andrew Gehring and Donovan Johnson were allegedly arrested earlier this week at a Waffle House in South…
September 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - An African-American businessman has spent thousands of dollars of his hard earned cash to urge young men…
August 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Don Lemon used CNN's 'No Talking Points' segment over the weekend to address the open letter penned…
July 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Michael Skolnik, editor-in-chief of Global Grind, used a recent guest appearance on CNN to give Don Lemon…
October 15, 2012
Community leaders in Maryland's Prince George's County are fed up with young men sagging their pants. The Washington Times reports…
August 3, 2012
CHICAGO - Spirit Airlines booted a man off a flight at O’Hare International Airport over the weekend for being “verbally…
June 14, 2012
DALLAS - A Dallas councilman says pants are still sagging and he's rolling out another push to get people to…
April 30, 2012
Recently rapper Kanye West was caught in a rather awkward position when he was seen out with rumored girlfriend Kim…
April 11, 2012
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities in central Alabama say a man has been given a three-day jail sentence for contempt…
September 27, 2011
ALBANY, Ga. -- Officials in Albany, Ga., say the city's ban on saggy pants has generated nearly $4,000 in fines…
July 28, 2011
SLIDESHOW - While, financial fines and legal repercussions are increasingly put in place to stop saggy jeans in public, it…
June 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Deshon Marman's attorney alleges racial discrimination after a photo shows a scantily clad man boarding a plane,…