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The House has voted to outlaw discrimination that’s based on hairstyles like Afros and cornrows associated with race.

For generations, Black women and men have faced discrimination based on their hair. Last week, Connecticut became just the latest state to sign a law banning bias in workplaces and schools against natural or protective hairstyles like braids, locks and twists. LX Host Ashley Holt breaks down the history of hair discrimination in the U.S. and why Black hair is...

Gov. Ned Lamont held a bill signing ceremony for the CROWN Act, which is a bill aimed at stopping discrimination in the workplace and schools against natural hairstyles. Lamont signed the bill on Friday and the ceremony was held on Wednesday morning. The CROWN Act, short for an Act Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, seeks to…

Gov. Ned Lamont has signed the CROWN Act, a bill aimed at stopping discrimination in the workplace and schools against natural hairstyles. The CROWN Act, short for an Act Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, seeks to end hair discrimination often experienced by Black women for their natural and protective hairstyles. Rep. Robyn Porter (D-New Haven), a…

The state Senate is expected to give final passage Monday to the Crown Act to prevent discrimination against natural female hairstyles in the workplace.

Connecticut’s House of Representatives is in session to discuss and vote on a bill that increases funding to municipalities and another that would prohibit discrimination against how Black women wear their hair in the workplace.

The House of Representatives met Wednesday to vote on a bill that increases funding to municipalities and one that would prohibit discrimination against natural Black hair styles in the workplace.  “I think it’s important to do the increase in PILOT funding now because it puts a marker down,” House Speaker Matt Ritter said. “It makes it very clear that...

Connecticut lawmakers are hoping to make Connecticut the eighth state to ban discrimination against Black women in the workplace and schools for how they wear their hair.  “Many of us are judged, reprimanded and passed over for promotion or even fired for the way we wear our hair to work,” Rep. Robyn Porter (D-New Haven) said.  Porter, a sponsor...

Connecticut lawmakers are hoping to make Connecticut the eighth state to ban discrimination in the workplace and schools for how they wear their hair.