Drexel University’s Greene, a legal expert on grooming code discrimination, will deliver the 2024 Hartman Hotz Lecture in Law and Liberal Arts at 4 p.m. today in the E.J. Ball Courtroom of the School of Law.
Drexel University’s Greene, a legal expert on grooming code discrimination, will deliver the 2024 Hartman Hotz Lecture in Law and Liberal Arts on April 23.
From reporters to airport staff, Dr. Wendy Greene discussed how women of color were excluded from opportunities because they wore braids, twists, locs and other styles to protect their hair from damage. Northwestern hosted Greene, a professor at the Drexel University’s Kline School of Law, Wednesday afternoon at The Graduate School’s event #FreeTheHair: Locking Black.
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Diversity, the firm s CDIO, Lloyd Freeman is joined by
Professor Wendy Greene of Drexel University in Philadelphia to
examine the law and effects of racial discrimination against
African descendants natural hair in the workplace.
Greene is the first tenured African American woman on the Drexel
University Thomas R. Kline School of Law faculty and has devoted
her professional life s work to advancing racial, color, and
gender equity in workplaces and beyond. Her 2008 article, Title VII: What s Hair (and Other
Race-Base Characteristics) Got to Do with It? , is being
adopted in history-making state and federal legislation known as
the C.R.O.W.N. Acts (Creating a Respectful and Open World for