CROWN Act: California becomes first state to ban discrimination against natural hair - CBS News"A new law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes California the first state to ban discrimination against black students and employees over their natural hairstyles.
The authors of this new law say women with kinky and curly hair are sometimes subject to unequal treatment, and can even be viewed as inferior.
A recent study by Dove says that black women are 80% more likely to change their natural hair to conform to social norms or expectations at work.
Chastity Jones was locked in a nearly ten-year legal battle after she says an employer took back a job offer at an Alabama call center because Jones refused to cut her hair.
"She said, 'Are those dreadlocks in your hair?' And I just looked at her, and I was like, 'These?'" Jones said. "And she said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Yes, they are.' She said, 'Um, well, we can't accept that here.'"
"It had nothing to do with the job," she added. "It just had everything to do with my hair."...
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"It had nothing to do with the job," she added. "It just had everything to do with my hair."...
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