Orlena Nwokah Blanchard and Adjoa B. Asamoah are just a few of the women addressing race-based hair discrimination with the CROWN Act movement.
The CROWN Act movement"What a conference in corporate America looked like for me — a conference room of 150 Black women — looked very different 10 years ago, myself included," Orlena Nwokah Blanchard said.
Blanchard is one of the founding members of the CROWN Act movement, which aims to spotlight and address race-based hair discrimination. "I am so inspired and moved and fulfilled when I get messages from people who say 'I am rocking my curls naturally' or 'I didn't feel comfortable wearing braids and now I do' or 'I switched my hair up & I'm embracing the full diversity of my hair' because, I do mine different ways based on what I feel like doing because that's my right — and that's what I'm working to preserve," she said.
In 2020, a Black high school senior, DeAndre Arnold, was told he had to cut his locs if he wanted to walk in his graduation ceremony. In 2018, a viral video showed a referee cutting off 16-year-old Black varsity wrestler Andrew Johnson's locs so he did not have to forfeit his match. In 2010, Chastity Jones, a Black woman, lost a job offer after she refused to cut her locs when HR told her the hairstyle was messy and violated the company's grooming policy.
Asamoah added,"The economic impact is obvious. You're talking about a society where there are already racial and gender pay gaps and then you're talking about my hair potentially impacting my earning potential. We've seen people who've been passed over for promotions, have had offers of employment rescinded, been fired."
The four women created and led the CROWN Act movement after meeting and discussing race-based hair discrimination in New Orleans in 2018 at Essence Fest — a festival celebrating Black women's beauty, brilliance and resilience. While Blanchard, Lawson and Bracey were thinking of ways to include the Black community in more spaces visually, Asamoah was the one who suggested a policy approach as the best way to address the longstanding and problematic practice of race-based hair discrimination.
Singer and actress Halle Bailey stars in Disney's live remake of"The Little Mermaid." Her brown skin, brown eyes and head full of locs have already inspired little Black girls far and wide — showing them she truly is"Part of Your World."
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