Many Black women face racial discrimination on the job and at school because of their natural hair.
Currently, federal law prohibits racial discrimination against someone wearing an Afro. But this same protection doesn’t include other natural hairstyles like braids, locs, twists or bantu knots.to ban discrimination based on hair texture.“It feels really awful to know the way I am naturally is looked down upon by people. It’s hard because I just want to be natural and be myself,” said Mya Cook, who experienced hair discrimination at 15-years-old.
“Now no one will go through that again it means more than the world - it really does,” said Deanna Cook, who also experienced hair discrimination at 15-years-old.It would prohibit race-based hair discrimination at work and school because of hair texture at a national level. “Because often times they are being associated with being unprofessional or being negatively associated or stereotyped as unkempt, or distracting, or unusual, or even in some instances unnatural,” she said.It shows more 60 percent of Black women change their hair before a job interview. Often changing it from curly to straight.
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