When is a hairstyle not just a hairstyle? When it’s a pretext for discrimination.
African Americans in particular find that their afros, cornrows and dreadlocks are held against them at school and when applying for jobs. Employers in California no longer will be allowed to reject job candidates because they dislike their curls, coils, kinks or locks, after the governor signed a first-of-its-kind bill outlawing hair discrimination. The new measure, signed …
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