News From A Colorful Perspective
Khalisa Rae Thompson had been a customer at multiple Aveda Salons for 15 years. A routine visit to an Aveda in Raleigh, N.C., would turn her otherwise good experiences with the chain into an eye-opening lesson on hair discrimination against Black women, according to ESSENCE. Thompson said she had previously…
City council members in Cincinnati voted to pass an ordinance outlawing discrimination based on natural hair texture and style. The ordinance passed with a vote of 7-1, with Councilman Jeff Pastor absent. Amy Murray was the lone “no” vote. She claims protections against hair discrimination should already be assumed to…
Alan Maloney, the racist wrestling referee who cut a young Black wrestler’s locs before a match, has been suspended from refereeing matches for two years. On Wednesday, the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJIAA) and The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (NJDCR) announced the “punishment” rendered upon Maloney via…
Sally Hazelgrove, the white leader of the Chicago-based Crushers Club charity, has been facing serious backlash over images from October 2016 showing her cutting the dreadlocks of two Black teenagers. The images have been condemned as racist and were deleted from Twitter on Friday. Today, the NFL’s #InspireChange “social justice”…
California is now the first state to explicitly protect natural hairstyles in its anti- workplace discrimination laws. The aptly-named CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) acknowledges that hairstyles have racial and cultural implications and that Blackness has historically been ridiculed. In April, the California State…
The news broadcasting industry is notorious for making mandates on the appearance of on-air journalists. For many Black female broadcast journalists, it’s been an uphill battle to be their authentic self at work. However, in recent years, there are instances where Black journalists have decided to wear natural hairstyles and…
Serena Williams has been openly sharing her motherhood journey. Williams’ 11 million Instagram followers are privy to special moments that she shares with her daughter, Alexis Olympia. The tennis icon shared a photo on Thursday of her braiding her toddler’s hair and explained the origins of braiding. “Braiding started in…
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder and executive chairman of Reddit married to tennis superstar Serena Williams, wants to learn how to style his 20-month-old baby girl Alexis Olympia’s natural hair. The Internet entrepreneur and investor sought out advice on social media. Ohanian tweeted on Thursday: Just applied to join 4 private Natural…
It’s 2019, yet Black women who choose to wear natural hairstyles face an additional layer of discrimination at airports. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses $150,000 “active millimeter wave radio technology” body-scanning machines from L3 Technologies, which has no Black women on its executive leadership team. Apparently, the technology is prone to false alarms for hairstyles…
Mitchell, who wears locs, introduces “Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair” bill, The CROWN Act. Senator Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles wears locs, and, like many Black women, faced white colleagues’ confusion around it. “I decided to loc at 40,” Mitchell said in an interview. “I was…
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