California becomes first state to ban hair discrimination:
“[This issue] is played out in workplaces, played out in schools,” Newsom said upon signing the bill, per the Huffington Post. “Every single day, all across America, in ways subtle and in ways overt.”
The bill was proposed by Senator Holly Mitchell. “Eurocentric standards of beauty have established the very underpinnings of what was acceptable and attractive in the media, in academic settings, and in the workplace,” she tells the L.A. Times. “So even though African Americans were no longer explicitly excluded from the workplace, black features and mannerisms remained unacceptable and ‘unprofessional.
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