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  1. 25 Feb 2019

    Did you hear that NYC is taking an active role in ending anti-black discrimination by protecting the right for black people to wear natural hairstyles?

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  2. 18 Feb 2019

    Policies that require employees or students to cut their dreadlocks, afros or braids are a form of anti-black racism. just released a groundbreaking legal guidance that makes these policies illegal. Read it here:

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  3. 3 Mar 2019

    Hey NYC family, catch me on MNN to learn more about NYC's ban on discrimination based on natural hair. Tonight at 7:30 pm on MNN1 (FiOS 33, RCN 82, Spectrum 34 & 1995) and MNN HD (Spectrum 1993)

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  4. 19 Feb 2019

    🗣THIS JUST IN!! 📇Under the NYC Human Rights Law [NYCHRL] it is now OFFICIALLY ILLEGAL to discriminate based on your hair! 👏🏾✊🏾❤️Hair is a part of YOU, and the just made 📜 Read more about YOUR rights and the NYCHRL at

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  5. 28 Feb 2019

    . combating discrimination against & takes an important step forward for New Yorkers' rights

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  6. 19 Oct 2021

    Love your locs? So do we. In NYC you have the right to wear or style your hair any way you like. Race-based discrimination based on natural hair or hairstyles is illegal.

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  7. 23 Feb 2019

    New(ly colored and styled) natural hair, who dis? 🙋🏾‍♀️

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  8. 18 Feb 2019

    We’re not our hair AND our hair is a big part of us. We have every right to wear our hair in ways that best express our style, mood & culture. made it clear that discriminating against Black people’s hair will not be tolerated

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  9. 24 Jun 2021

    Your hair is a part of YOU. In New York City, discriminating against hairstyles commonly associated with someone’s race is discrimination—and its illegal.

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  10. 24 Jan 2020

    No child should be denied graduation for wearing their hair in a style that expresses their culture or heritage. Cultural expression includes long hairstyles, and hair has nothing to do with scholarship.

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  11. 18 Feb 2019

    Thank you for this important step toward ensuring that all of us have the freedom to work and learn regardless of how we wear our hair.

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  12. 26 Feb 2019

    It was an absolute pleasure to have presented info on ’s new Legal Guidance and PAIR project with at the NAACP meeting in Queens last night!

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  13. 21 Feb 2019

    Thank you, , for allowing me to share a bit about my journey to natural Black hair, race-based hair discrimination in employment, and the liberating impact of 's new hair guidance. Grateful for your time and expert journalism. 🙏🏾

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  14. 20 Feb 2019

    Hair is a part of YOU, and just made it clear that discrimination based on hair will not be tolerated. I stand with them!✊🏾👩🏽‍🦱

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  15. 11 Mar 2019

    The Commission on has released guidelines against targeting people on the basis of their hairstyle, classing this as .

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  16. 18 Feb 2019

    Great work by NYC’s Human Rights Commission! “Hair is a part of YOU, and just made clear that discrimination based on hair will not be tolerated.” Get in on this, everyone else, and get more info here:

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  17. 19 Feb 2019

    Come through, NYC! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽"Hair is an incredibly personal thing," . "Hair is a part of you, and as such we want to make sure that people can express themselves."

    It's Now Illegal To Discriminate Against New Yorkers Based On Their Hair via
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  18. 12 Jun 2019

    CHILLS! So proud to be part of this team working to enforce the anti-discrimination laws in ways that speak to people’s real lived experience.

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    Meet the women who fought against the racial discrimination, stigmatization, and segregation of natural hair — and won (In partnership with )
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  19. 19 Feb 2019

    AMEN! For all of us that have been ever told, "You can't wear your hair like that, darlin'!"👏🏿

    Today, the New York City Commission on Human Rights releases legal guidance on our protections and enforcement actions against racial discrimination on the basis natural hair and hairstyles:
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  20. 30 Sep 2020

    Join us for this hearing as we prepare to move the guidance we released in February of 2019 to rules!

    On October 15th, we’re holding a hearing on proposed rules on discrimination based on natural hair and hairstyles, which is rooted in racist beliefs about what is considered “professional.” Visit to RSVP to attend or testify.
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