The CROWN Act was created in 2019 by Dove and the CROWN Coalition, in partnership with then State Senator Holly J. Mitchell of California, to ensure protection against discrimination based on race-based hairstyles by extending statutory protection to hair texture and protective styles such as braids, locs, twists, and knots in the workplace and public schools.
Black women are 1.5 times more likely to be sent home from the workplace because of their hair.
I have to change my hair from its natural state to fit in at the office.
Black women are 80% more likely than white women to agree with this statement.
Source: Dove CROWN Research Study (2019) conducted by JOY Collective in the U.S. among 2000 (1000 Black and 1000 White) Women, Age 25 – 64. All data tested at 95% confidence level.
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People should not be forced to divest themselves of their racial-cultural identity by changing their natural hair in order to adapt to predominantly white spaces in the workplace or in school.
https://www.thecrownact.com
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