Ending Hair Discrimination with Kelli Lawson and Orlena Blanchard - a podcast by Cheryl-Lyn Bentley

A positive experience of beauty should be accessible to every woman. In this episode, Kelli Joy Richardson Lawson, Founder and CEO of JOY Collective, and Orlena Nwokah Blanchard, President and COO of JOY Collective, join me to chat about how they are mobilizing across the country to end hair discrimination based on hair texture and hairstyles in public schools and workplaces with the CROWN Act.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc004/

Topics Covered: 

• The CROWN Act and the movement to ban hair discrimination
• Defining hair discrimination and hair bias
• Findings from the 2019 Dove CROWN study about the magnitude of racial discrimination women experience in the workplace based on natural hairstyles
• Distinctions between hair texture and hairstyle 
• Stereotypes about natural hairstyles
• Defining beauty, hair inclusivity
• Intergenerational discussions around natural hair and beauty
• States passing the CROWN Act

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