Gavin Newsom signed into law Wednesday a bill making California the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids twists and locks.

Illgat to discimpinat agains black hairstyles in california. The bill is known as the CROWN. On December 5 2019 US. The prominence of hair discrimination caught Newsoms attention after a video of high school student Andrew Johnson being forced to cut off his locks before a wrestling meet went viral in 2018.

The laws main purpose is to update Montgomery Countys existing anti-discrimination policy to clarify that discrimination based on natural hair counts as racial discrimination. Senator Cory Booker introduced the CROWN Act of 2019 on the federal level to prohibit discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles associated with people of African descent including hair that is tightly coiled or tightly curled locs cornrows twists braids Bantu knots and Afros. It prohibits discrimination in the workplace public accommodations and other areas based on the hairstyles worn by some minority communities including braids afros curls and twists.

Following a 37-0 vote in the California Senate the state Assembly voted 69-0 Thursday in favor of SB 188. Discrimination against black hairstyles. Those physical traits include dark skin and kinky and curly hair.

Gavin Newsom center signs legislation by state Sen. Holly Mitchell led the effort to pass the legislation that incorporates hair-based discrimination associated with race to the states anti-discrimination law according to the Hill. MISSION KS KCTV -- California lawmakers are leading a fight to make a controversial practice at businesses and schools illegal for the first time.

It also breaks down the connection between race and hair and how American history has been riddled with laws and societal norms that equate blackness with inferiority. The bill which now heads to Gov. The ban on hairstyle discrimination.

California became the first state in the United States on Wednesday to ban employers and school officials from discriminating against people based on. SACRAMENTO California became the first state in the nation Wednesday to ban discrimination against black employees and students based on their natural hairstyles. Gavin Newsom signed SB188.