GREENSBORO, N.C. – Several companies nationwide are trying to protect Black employees who want to wear natural hairstyles at work.

What You Need To Know

  • UPS is the latest company to shed policies surrounding racial discrimination

  • The company will allow workers to have facial hair and natural Black hairstyles

  • One hairstylist says the movement is encouraging for those on their natural hair journey

UPS is the latest company to shed policies surrounding racial discrimination. The company will allow workers to have facial hair and natural Black hairstyles.

Laquana Lowe, a hairstylist at Anointed Cutz Barbershop, says the movement is encouraging for those on their natural hair journey.

Lowe served in the military for 13 years. During that time, she wasn’t allowed to wear her hair in its natural state. The military ban on natural hair was lifted in 2017.

Laquana Lowe pictured wearing natural hair in the military nearly a decade ago.

 

“I know that a little girl is going to grow up to love her hair and not really be pressured by society norms," Lowe says.

Last year, California became the first state to ban discrimination based on hairstyle and texture by passing the CROWN Act — an acronym for creating a respectful and open workplace for natural hair. North Carolina does not have any laws similar to the CROWN Act.