#crown act

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Show them why we are the most feared we control the black dollar...

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July 3rd of every year is National Crown Day! 👩🏿‍🦱👑

Today is a day to celebrate the beauty, resilience, and cultural significance of Black hairstyles — and marks the 5th anniversary of California’s “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair” (CROWN) Act. The law aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces. 

As of May 2024, at least 25 states have passed the CROWN Act or similar legislation. Just another example of how YOUR vote up and down the ballot can make a difference in people’s daily lives.

P.S.: Special shoutout to some of our Co-Chairs rocking their Crowns! 😍

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Darryl George, a 17 year old junior, has served more than two weeks of in-school suspension. The school claims it is because of the length of his hair and not the style, which violates school dress code.

Discrimination based on natural hairstyles violates the CROWN Act, which went into effect in Texas on September 1st.

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I am legit almost in tears of joys at seeing this young man ROCKING his locs in his official NASA pic 🥰🖤

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The New York Times: In Texas, a Black High School Student Is Suspended Over His Hair Length

Soon after starting his junior year last month at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, Darryl George was separated from his classmates because of the way he wears his hair, his mother and a lawyer said.

Since the term began on Aug. 16, Darryl, a 17-year-old Black student, has received multiple disciplinary notices that have culminated in more than a week of in-school suspension, where he sits on a stool in a cubicle and work is brought to him, according to his mother, Darresha George. Each morning, he is asked by officials at the school, about 30 miles east of Houston, whether he has cut his hair yet, she said.

He has not.

“He is actually getting singled out,” said Ms. George. “They are personally stopping him, ‘Did he cut his hair?’ Asking him at the door.”

Darryl has locs, or long ropelike strands of hair, that he pins on his head in a barrel roll, a protective style that reflects Black culture, Ms. George said. On Aug. 31, about two weeks after school started, school officials told her that his hair length, even though pinned, violated the dress code.

“I was told that every day Darryl comes to school, he would be put in in-school suspension because his hair has not been cut,” she said. “Even if pulled up in buns or neatly pulled back, because when let down it is below his earlobes and eyebrows.”

Supporters of the family, including legislators and activists, have called the suspension alarming, saying that it could test a new state law called the CROWN Act. The law, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed in May, says, in part, that any dress or grooming policy adopted by a school district “may not discriminate against a hair texture or protective hairstyle commonly or historically associated with race.” The law does not specifically mention hair length.

The Barbers Hill Independent School District’s dress code mandates that a male student’s hair “will not extend below the eyebrows, below the earlobes or below the top of a T-shirt collar.”

A district spokesman, David Bloom, said that the dress code and suspension were “not in conflict” with the CROWN Act because the code permits protective hairstyles, if the hair would not go beyond the permitted length when let down.

“The vast majority of hair code violation punishments — I.S.S. or more severe — have been handed down to white students,” Mr. Bloom said, using the acronym for in-school suspension, where, he said, students are kept in a classroom staffed by a teacher, and sit at desks separated by partitions so as not to disturb one another.

The school informed Ms. George of Darryl’s suspension just one day before the law took effect on Sept. 1, she said.

Even though the CROWN Act does not specifically mention hair length, Darryl’s supporters have said the district’s move violates the spirit of the law. Candice Matthews, a civil rights activist and vice chair of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, said that braids, locs and twists need to be long to protect the hair.

“It is a hairstyle that is cultural in nature,” she said.

At least 23 other states have adopted similar laws banning discrimination based on race-based hairstyles in the workplace and public schools.

On Sept. 8, the Texas Legislative Black Caucus sent a letter to the district superintendent, Greg Poole, and the school principal, Lance Murphy, urging the district to clear Darryl’s record and warning that the suspension could set a “dangerous precedent.”

“The school is arbitrarily coming up with something else, saying that it’s really not the hair, it’s the length,” said State Representative Ron Reynolds, a Democrat and chair of the caucus.

State Representative Rhetta Andrews Bowers, a Democrat and the primary author of the CROWN Act, said she was inspired by the Crown Coalition, which advocates adoption of the law in other states, and by DeAndre Arnold and Kaden Bradford, cousins who attended high school in the same district as Darryl and were suspended for the length of their dreadlocks in a case that garnered national attention.

“We anticipated that even with the passage of the legislation that there could possibly be incidents,” she said. “We knew that it was largely going to be education and awareness making people understand. We are still on that path.”

Darryl’s case is not the first to test the new law. In August, Katheryn Huerta, the mother of an elementary school student in Mabank, Texas, cited the CROWN Act when she was told that she would have to cut her son’s long hair. Ms. Huerta told WFAA-TV, a local ABC affiliate, that her district later relented, saying she could put her son’s hair in braids and a bun.

A lawyer for Ms. George, Allie Booker, said that Darryl had been given until the end of the week to comply with the school’s dress code or he could be placed in a disciplinary alternative learning program. Ms. Booker said she is considering legal action.

“We are not cutting his hair,” Ms. George said, “because that is part of his culture, that is his roots. It is like cutting off a part of him.”

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I truly hate women who goes out of their way to use a product not meant for them and then gets mad when it doesn’t work for them.

Like black people in general have all of two sections of 5 shelves in Walmart that have hair products that were made specifically for their hair and maybe a shelf of makeup for our skin tones, and more likely than not it’s locked behind a glass door. But we can’t have shit. And yes I’m talking about the Mielle Rosemary Mint Oil.

“ It’s just hair products”

No it’s not. It doesn’t even work for a white person’s hair because (1) it’s supposed to be left in your hair not washed out and (2) y’all break out when you’re hair is too oily.

Imagine for like five seconds that you have eczema. And there’s only five shelves of lotion for eczema prone skin. You find that one brand that works for you. All of a sudden, some random person without eczema was like “ I heard it’s not too oily, and felt light. But I put it on and I’m starting to have issues with acne” meanwhile all of the lotion you normally use is gone… that is what many black women go through every time a white woman is like “ I heard coconut and turmeric was good for your hair so I went out and bought this coconut and turmeric shampoo and conditioner,but blah, blah”. You get the picture.

Again, when it comes to beauty products made for black people, it’s pretty limited. Whether it’s makeup( because they still lock up darker foundations), or hair care. Even if you go to stores that specifically cater to black hair care, it’s hard to find one when you’re in the minority of the demographic and actually comfortable( you’d be surprised as to how many black hair shops are owned by nonblack people that are hella racist. Some are racist, some aren’t) going into. And even most grocery stores have all of 5 shelves with products that we actually use.

And if you’re a part of that demographic of women that use the product because it actually works for your hair, then I’m not talking about you.

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This is STILL Happening in 2023...Black Hair Discrimination

Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle (msn.com)

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension Tuesday for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a months long standoff over a dress code policy the teen's family calls discriminatory.

George, 18, already has spent more than 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom.

He was first pulled from the classroom at the Houston-area school in August after school officials said his braided locs fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code. His family argues the punishment violates the CROWN Act, which became law in Texas in September and is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination. The school says the CROWN Act does not address hair length.

FILE - Darryl George, left, a 17-year-old junior, and his mother Darresha George, right, talks with reporters before walking across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after Darryl served a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in Mont Belvieu. George will spend the remainder of the year in in-school suspension, extending a punishment that was first imposed in August over his hairstyle that district officials maintain violates their dress code policy. A referral given to George Tuesday, Dec. 5, said his hair is “out of compliance” with the dress code at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)© Provided by The Associated Press

“We are just trying to take it day by day. That’s all we can do,” his mother, Darresha George, told The Associated Press. “We do not see the light at the end of the tunnel. But we are not giving up.”

School officials said George was sent to the disciplinary program for violating the dress code and the tardy policy, disrupting the in-school suspension classroom and not complying with school directives. As he completed his punishment there, district spokesperson David Bloom said George was told he would go back to in-person suspension unless he trimmed his hair.

George's family has filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general along with the school district, alleging they failed to enforce the new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.

The school district has filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violate the CROWN Act.

State Rep. Ron Reynolds, a Democrat and chair of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, said he planned to file an amendment to the law during the next session that “specifically addresses length to stop their pretextual argument to not comply with the Crown Act.”

“They are acting in bad faith to continue discriminating against African American students,” Reynolds said in an email.

George said he feels like is being singled out because there are other boys in the school with longer hairstyles than his. He was denied an exemption that the family requested because of the hairstyle’s cultural and religious importance.

“It’s frustrating because I’m getting punished for something everyone else is doing, growing hair, having hair,” George said.

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The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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Locs In or Locked Out?

Locs have gotten Darryl George, a black student in Texas, suspended for a week. George’s mother, Darresha George, has hired a lawyer and is considering legal action against the school district. According to the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, male students’ hair must not extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes. Darryl George was reprimanded for his locs…

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Racial Discrimination: A Texas School Districts Fight over Hair Policies

Now this is interesting. Darryl George‘s story has made national news, as again one Texas School District is called into question over their school policies on hair. I’m left wondering what the regulation is for girls in the district. Are the policies the same? If they are not, the district could be facing some serious repercussions. In the world we live in today, not only could they be hit with…

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Dev Bondarin is directing a reading of my kitchen-sink dramedy TUMBLEWEED with the UP Theater Company (www.uptheater.org). The reading will take place on Sunday, January 21st at 3pm at Ft. Washington Collegiate Church located at 729 W. 181st St. (1 train to 181st).

Kirby Fields, artistic director of the UP Theatre Company recently spoke with the Manhattan News recently about their Dead of Winter series: ‘Fields says it is particularly gratifying to establish relationships with writers. Marcus Scott, who wrote the third play in the series, “Tumbleweed,” came to a staged reading last year. Then he sent Fields a number of his own plays.

“This guy is just bursting with ideas,” said Fields. “He’s pulling from philosophy, pop culture…he’s culling from all different racial dynamics on stage and putting them all together.” Directed by Dev Bondarin, the play revolves around a young Black woman with “hair like a tumbleweed” who tries to reconcile different standards of beauty.’

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Read the story: Manhattan Times

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Side eye, and y'all still want to say Black people don't get discrimination for their hair.

Y'all gonna eventually to stop defeminizing black women and leaving us alone because we don't adhere to Eurocentric beauty standards. Short hair and muscles aren't masculine y'all are just cowards

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Black Woman, don't let anybody play in your face about it: Love you, do you, be comfortable with you. If your hair is straight, let it be because YOU like it straight and not because "that's what men like..." The ones that will be honest with you will tell you we like THIS. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL EITHER WAY THOUGH, and I can't tell yall that enough. But don't subscribe to the European Standards of beauty; the ones that make your skin less than, your lips 'too big' and your hips 'too wide' or your hair 'too nappy' because a Black Man loves ALL of your Black Features and we need yall out here because NOBODY CAN DO IT BETTER!! Wear the crown 👑 Afros, locks, cornrows, braids, fades or shaved heads... Straight hair, curly, baby, wear tye crown 👑 is yours for a reason but YOU have to put it on. You are Fearfully and Wonderfully made and we would be miserable Black Men without Black Women. I love yall and I know it's hard so I thank yall because we need yall.

Embracing the beauty and power of black afros, which is a testament to our heritage, culture, strength, and beauty. 🤎✊🏾

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Black Women And Hair Discrimination - Confessions

In this video, we'll hear directly from several individuals who were brave enough to speak out about the hurtful comments, policies, and injustices they faced simply due to their hairstyle choices.