Law would protect race-based hair styles
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Tradition Black hairstyles would be protected under an anti-discrimination proposal awaiting action in the General Assembly.Michael Wyke / ContributorShow MoreShow Less
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Thirteen-year-old Christina Jackson, praised Tuesday as a “young Black queen,” doesn’t want to bow to some future employer’s racist attitude toward wearing her hair in box braids or corn rows.
And under a bill that died in last year’s pandemic that is now being revived in the General Assembly, she and Black women, as well as men throughout the state of Connecticut, would be able to proudly wear ethnic hairstyles historically associated with race.