**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** 03.29.2018 Coalition of Black Women Leaders Call for Changes to State and Federal Discrimination Laws that Allow Employers to Legally Discriminate Based On Hairstyle (WASHINGTON, DC) – The Justice Read more…
Teen Vogue Reports: In early February, the Perception Institute released the results of their 2016 study confirming that black women with natural hair experience bias in the workplace. The ‘Good Hair’ study, inspired by Shea Moisture, Read more…
The Atlantic Reports: When Teni Adewumi surveyed African-American salon workers in Inglewood, California, she kept seeing the same health concerns over and over: Asthma. Dermatitis. Hair loss. Uterine fibroids. Miscarriage. Veteran stylists told her they Read more…
Newsweek Reports: Two black female students attending a charter school in Massachusetts were recently kicked off their sports teams and prohibited from attending a prom because they wore their hair in braids. The Mystic Valley Read more…
The Cut Reports: “Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair,” Malcolm X asked a predominately black crowd in 1962. Though it was Read more…
Salon reports: …the long-held skepticism in black communities over natural styles has its roots in the structural and systemic regulation of black women’s bodies. Before I got a relaxer at the age of 11, I Read more…
NPR Reports: Stories about black women whose employers asked them to cut their dreadlocks or to trim their big afros have surfaced with more frequency in the last few years. Now a new study confirms Read more…
Allure Reports: It may be 2017, but Black women have been discriminated against for their natural hair for decades. And, as hard it may be to believe, the U.S. Army instituted a ban against servicewomen wearing twists, locs and Read more…
WCTV Reports: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) — Seventeen-year-old Jenesis Johnson found herself in trouble at school because of her hair. …Jenesis was called into the assistant principal’s office. “She said your hair is extreme and faddish Read more…
CBS WJZ Reports: A Maryland waitress wins a discrimination case. The former Hooters employee says she was fired because of her hair. That woman tells WJZ the lawsuit was never just about her hair. She says it’s about Read more…