California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law legislation making the state the first to ban practices that discriminate against natural hairstyles associated with race, especially associated with what the bill describes as “blackness.”
According to the Los Angeles Times, the so-called CROWN Act legally protects “people in workplaces and K-12 public schools by prohibiting the enforcement of grooming policies that disproportionately affect people of color,” including restrictions on certain hairdos like “Afros, braids, twists, cornrows and dreadlocks – or locs for short.”
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