Research Shows Race-Based Hair Discrimination Starts As Early As Five

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100% of Black elementary school girls in majority-white schools who reported experiencing hair discrimination experienced it by 10 years of age

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Black women were also 1.5x more likely to have reported having been sent home from workplace because of their hair.

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