Texas lawmakers could prohibit race-based hair discrimination at schools and workplaces. At least 20 states have already passed similar legislation, according to a group that champions the laws.
Bowers said the Crown Act Coalition, a national group that champions the legislation, reached out to her in 2019 to ask if she was willing to propose the legislation.Also at the time, Arnold and his cousin, Kaden Bradford, had drawn wide attention to race-based hair discrimination with their situation. Bradford had also been threatened with discipline — indefinite suspension — if he did not cut his locks.
In pushing for the law, Bowers said she has gone through transformational change herself. She had put relaxers — chemicals that help straighten curly hair — on her hair since she was 8 years old. In April 2022, she decided to get a “big chop”: a haircut down to her natural pattern to take out the straight pieces.
She almost cried when she looked at hair. It was hers but unrecognizable after so many years in a straight style. She has only straightened it once since then, she said. When she wore her hair naturally to the Legislature’s opening day this year, she recounted, her daughter told her it sent a message that it was OK to do so for such a special day.We can’t wait to welcome you Sept. 21-23 to the 2023
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