No child should face Afro hair school ban More still needs to be done to stop inhumane discrimination, writes L'Myah Sherae myah_sherae
Some schools still have policies banning youngsters from wearing longer hair The phrase sounds so outdated, right? Even when I re-read the sentence in my head, I automatically imagined it being said in a toddler’s voice – that’s how childish it sounds.
Because of our campaign, the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned that if a school bans hairstyles that are commonly associated with children of African and Caribbean descent, then they are likely to be breaking the law. Yes it’s a fantastic result, but it’s not entirely perfect. Clearly there’s a loophole here. Especially when it comes to safeguarding children and encouraging them to embrace their identity.
California’s Governor signed a bill about this at a ceremony in his office, after it passed both chambers of the California legislature with unanimous support. The bill amended existing anti-discrimination laws to include hair as part of protected racial characteristics, and it is likely to inspire laws in other US states, too.
In fact, the United States Army had actually banned locs for female service members until 2017, which is when the policy was finally overturned. In 2016, three U.S. judges ruled against Chastity Jones, a Black woman in Alabama who filed a racial lawsuit against the company that revoked her job offer because she refused to cut off her locs.
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