July 26, 2022 3:39 PM
Posted: July 26, 2022 3:39 PM
Updated: July 27, 2022 2:09 AM
FILE – Deanna Cook, left, poses for a photograph with her mother Colleen at their home in Malden, Mass., on March 15, 2022. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker active into law Tuesday, July 26, 2022, a bill banning bigotry based on accustomed and careful hairstyles in workplaces, academy districts, and school-related organizations. The affair came to ablaze aback the parents of then-15-year-old Black girls, Deanna and Mya Cook, said their accompanying daughters were punished for cutting extensions, while white acceptance hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations, including appearance their hair.
Craig F. Walker – member, The Boston Globe
FILE – Deanna Cook, left, poses for a photograph with her mother Colleen at their home in Malden, Mass., on March 15, 2022. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker active into law Tuesday, July 26, 2022, a bill banning bigotry based on accustomed and careful hairstyles in workplaces, academy districts, and school-related organizations. The affair came to ablaze aback the parents of then-15-year-old Black girls, Deanna and Mya Cook, said their accompanying daughters were punished for cutting extensions, while white acceptance hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations, including appearance their hair.
Craig F. Walker – member, The Boston Globe
FILE – Deanna Cook, left, poses for a photograph with her mother Colleen at their home in Malden, Mass., on March 15, 2022. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker active into law Tuesday, July 26, 2022, a bill banning bigotry based on accustomed and careful hairstyles in workplaces, academy districts, and school-related organizations. The affair came to ablaze aback the parents of then-15-year-old Black girls, Deanna and Mya Cook, said their accompanying daughters were punished for cutting extensions, while white acceptance hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations, including appearance their hair.
BOSTON (AP) —
Legislation to ban bigotry based on accustomed and careful hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or deeply coiled twists — in workplaces, academy districts and school-related organizations in Massachusetts was active into law Tuesday by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.
Black women in accurate accept faced burden in academy and on the job to adapt their beard to accommodate to behavior that are biased adjoin accustomed hairstyles, according to supporters of the law.
The bill had been absolutely accustomed by the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House and Senate. The new law defines accustomed and careful hairstyles as including “braids, locks, twists, Bantu knots and added formations,” and tasks the Massachusetts Commission Adjoin Bigotry with administration the protections.
Policies that absolute or prohibit accustomed hairstyles in all academy districts are now
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