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  • A black man wearing a brown UPS uniform pushes a dally filled with brown, boxed packaged.

    UPS Announces New Policy Allowing Employees to Wear Natural Black Hairstyles

    The changes also eliminate gender-specific rules and permit “businesslike” piercings.
    Shani Saxon Nov 13, 2020 2:00PM EST
    Close-up of Black woman with long natural hair.

    Studies Show: Black Women With Natural Hair Less Likely to Get Job Interviews

    Research out of Duke University confirms what Black women have likely always known: natural hair is perceived as less professional.
    Shani Saxon Aug 14, 2020 10:30AM EDT
    Black hair. Office scene showing three people of color. Two Black women with natural hair and a Latinx man with short dark hair and facial hair.

    Campaign Seeks Federal Discrimination Protection for Black Hair

    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.”

    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Aug 15, 2019 1:41PM EDT
    NYC new guidelines on hair discrimination

    New York City Says Businesses Can't Discriminate Based on Hair

    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.

    Ayana Byrd Feb 19, 2019 3:12PM EST
    A Black woman with a short natural haircut wearing a denim shirt and colorful necklace stands in front of trees in the woods

    Dr. Yaba Blay for The Root: Black Hair Conversations That Don't Consider White Supremacy Pathologize Black Women

    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.  

    Akiba Solomon Jul 14, 2017 11:15AM EDT
    Black woman sits in chair with messed up hair, she is flanked by two women

    'Today' Committed a Crime Against Black Hair—Then Posted It Online

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

    Ayana Byrd Aug 4, 2016 4:13PM EDT
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