MINNEAPOLIS -- If fashion can make a statement then Muslim girls like Sihal Ali are making a big one. Ali is a point guard for her Cedar-Riverside community basketball team. But her long skirt and ...

Alaa Ammuss, 31, of Plano, an alumna of Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, is surrounded by students wearing the uniforms she designed. Ben Torres / Special Contributor Fashion designer Alaa Ammuss ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Girls in stylish athletic wear walk the runway as the sounds of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry blare from speakers. The crowd claps and cheers as the young models strike poses with ...

I’m a comms assistant, football writer and Witnesham Wasps’ Most Improved Player of the Year 2006/07. I wrote this piece as it highlights how football can not only be a place where anyone can belong, ...

These are beige culottes made of synthetic fabric. The culottes are pleated with large flaps that give the appearance that the item is a skirt. The left leg corresponds with the front flap and the ...

The trend coincides with a change in Illinois law making it easier for student athletes to wear religious clothing while competing. On a frigid Sunday afternoon, a group of teenage girls practice ...

Viewed through a window, student Iman Ikram (from left), principal Fawzia Belal and student Sadia Sarwer are three of the figures who make Qalam Collegiate Academy a unique place. Ikram was this past ...

The girls can see it — in an opponent’s glance, maybe the way she drops her shoulders — when the Stars take the court looking demure in their traditional Muslim headscarves. Then, without fail, ...

Beige head scarf made of synthetic fabric. Scarf in the shape of a half-circle with the forehead portion at the horizontal edge. Two smaller flaps are attached to the forehead section and wrap around ...