A new Color of Change petition says: “Across America, Black people are policed, humiliated and even sent home because employers and peers want to control our expression. We won bills that end hair discrimination in two states, and now we are fighting to end it across the nation.”

Not only can the city force companies to rehire employers who were let go due to this racial discrimination, but it can also levy penalties up to $250,000.

In the first of a new video series from The Root, ethnographer, producer and professor Yaba Blay makes sense of the race politics and meaning of hair as it grows out of Black women’s scalps.  

This now-viral video shows what happens when you combine live morning television with racial cluelessness.

The Angolan is the first black supermodel to sport natural hair during the annual televised fashion show.

A new photospread exclusively featuring black models is prominently featured in the August issue of W magazine.