racial, gender & color equity advocate| a legal architect of the federal CROWN Act and parallel state leg| Founder, #FreeTheHair movement @FreeTheHairNow
Philadelphia, PA
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Always enriching, always fun times with my fantastic colleague & friend whose thought-leadership I admire. Such a great time with @dissentingj, Dr. Cynthia Spence @SpelmanCollege speaking to the @EmoryLaw community today on gender, civil rights, and political processes. ⚖️
The fabulous Professor @ProfessorDWendy visited @EmoryLaw to speak on gender issues at the Emory Center for Civil Rights and Social Justice. It was a wonderful event!
Honored to be a part of this important series hosted by & @dissentingj @EmoryLaw Ctr for Civil Rights & Social Justice! Looking forward to exploring the critical role of state & local elections + civil rts advocacy to advance women’s rights, which are human rights. ⚖️
Next week, the Emory Center for Civil Rights and Social Justice will host the third panel in a 5-part series, "Civil Rights on the Ballot: The 2024 Elections." Panelists: Professors @ProfessorDWendy and @cspence816. We are so excited!
Details: 12:-1:15; Hunter Atrium (3d floor of Emory Law); lunch provided. @emorycollege @EmoryLaw @EmoryUniversity @EmoryUniversity @EmoryOxford @DrexelKlineLaw
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In a few hours, I will begin my talk at the V&A with an analysis of this silk tartan turban. This turban is a representation of the romanticization and appropriation of Scottish dress at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. George IV's 1822 visit to Edinburgh popularized tartans, leading to a broader European fascination with Highland culture. This trend not only manifested in fashion, but also coincided with the systemic displacement of Scots and the appropriation of their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances. The turban connects this cultural fetishization with larger patterns of appropriation and the use of turbans and headwear by elite white women, demonstrating a recurring pattern of fascination and marginalization. It might be simply called cultural appropriation today, but during that period, elite white women borrowed liberally from newly encountered peoples—whether it was Scotsmen from the Highlands, Turks in the so-called “Orient,” or women of color in West Africa and the Americas. @connectthreads
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Another reminder that Black identity and culture can be venerated and vilified at the same time. Black hair discrimination is a living vestige of regulation of the Black body.
Judge denies an order sought by a Black student who was punished over his hair apnews.com/article/hair-disc…
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Who was the real Princess Tiana? Meet the Louisiana legend who inspired her.
By creating a space where people of color could dine in elegance, Leah Chase reshaped the culinary landscape of New Orleans and inspired future generations. on.natgeo.com/3Bop0MS
Always uplifting and inspiring to be amongst such bright, brilliant lights who are committed to the ongoing work of actualizing & preserving justice and equity.⚖️🌟
I enjoyed spending time with my friends and former @NAACP_LDF colleagues planning for all of the critical work we have ahead of us. @ProfFairfax @JNelsonLDF @DamonTHewitt @ProfessorDWendy
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To me, this is what academia is all about. The life of the mind has no boxes—it’s a life of freedom, it’s the love of learning, its the work of creativity, it’s the joy of wonder. Be you. Real talk. There will only ever be one of you. (14/)
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People think Trump crashed and burned. But he did exactly what he set out to do: DEFLECT. Instead of talking about his dumpster fire of an administration (the effects of which we still live with), the media is asking whether a biracial woman is Black.
Utter foolishness.
When I accepted my @NABJ Journalist of Distinction Award in 2022, I said that we have to resist our training which says that the truth always has two sides. Platforming Donald Trump at a professional event today doesn’t show even-handedness. It shows how democracies die.
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WATCH: This floor speech on the #CROWNAct is the very best of Rep. Jackson Lee. She will be remembered as much for her brilliant advocacy as for the iconic crown she proudly wore with grace and beauty throughout the halls of Congress. #RestInPower, Queen. youtu.be/a_0WCfgPWME?si=h1QJ…
So proud of my superstar colleague whom I am blessed to call sister-friend! Congratulations @Rachel_E_Lopez on your well-earned endowed professorship @TempleLaw!🌟💫⭐️👏🏽
With everything else going on, it almost feels small to say, but as part of my move to @TempleLaw I've be promoted from Associate Prof. to a chaired Prof. of Law.
In honor of my article, Unentitled, I decided to post after learning I'm one of few Lawtinas w/ this designation.
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"Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair." Today is National Crown Day - a movement created to end race-based hair discrimination nationwide. Look at these beautiful, empowering images of women showcasing their #CROWNLove at Bennett College!
Ending this #CROWNDay immensely grateful for the steadfast support along this decades-long journey to @FreeTheHairNow and the awesome privilege of working alongside many to actualize legal protections for hair liberation, equality, and inclusion for millions. 👑🪮⚖️
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Love is…Your husband asking if there is anything he can do to help as you take down your braids and he actually means it. 🥰🥰🥰#naturalhairjourney #itsthelittlethings
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What a beautiful illustration of the connection between past and present that I’ve been feeling so acutely lately and the need to draw from the wisdom of our elders in the civil rights movement as we rise to meet this current moment!
How special! Mr. Young is truly a national treasure who holds a dear place in my family’s civil rights journeys. Over 60 years ago, my mother, as a student activist (@BenedictEDU) participating in voter registration drives and advancing voting rights, was trained by Mr. Young.
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The South Carolina case of Briggs v. Elliot, filed in 1950, was the first of the five desegregation cases that the Supreme Court later consolidated under the #BrownvBoard title. Listen to Nathaniel Briggs explain the history of the case and its importance to the broader movement.
ICYMI: President and Director-Counsel @JNelsonLDF was on @GMA discussing the impact and legacy of Brown v. Board on it's 70th anniversary.
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Gordon Parks, renowned for documenting impoverished Americans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration, creating photojournalistic essays for Life magazine, and directing the film Shaft, was also a noted fashion photographer. His work in fashion, featured prominently in Vogue and LIFE magazine from the mid-1940s to the late 1970s, including this photo from a 1951 Jacques Fath fashion show. Early in his career, Parks often worked with white models and designers due to limited control over his assignments. However, as he gained more influence, he increasingly celebrated black beauty in his photography.
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British Formula 1 driver @LewisHamilton's Met Gala @Burberry look was inspired by the story of John Ystumllyn, one of Britain’s first black gardeners, and the symbolic language of flowers in black history. John Ystumllyn was an 18th-century gardener and is considered the first well-recorded black person of North Wales. Most likely brought to the Ystumllyn estate as an enslaved boy, he was well-respected in his local community, eventually marrying a local woman named Margaret Gruffydd.
Hamilton's outfit was hand-embroidered over two weeks by a team of 20, before the finishing touches were painted by hand in New York. Inspired by Ystumllyn's green thumb, the coat is embroidered with periwinkles for endurance, yucca for eternity and protection, daffodils for their hardiness, and cedar branches for everlasting life. The thorns around his neck symbolize the perils of slavery.
As the legal architect of the federal #CROWNAct, I am pleased to see the re-introduction of this civil rights bill that affirms our human rights to be free from racial discrimination + to freely express our racial & cultural identities are protected and respected. #FreeTheHair
This week, I reintroduced the bipartisan CROWN Act along with @RepBonnie @SenatorCollins and many others. Unfortunately in this country, both implicit and explicit biases against natural Black hair are deeply rooted in society and the workplace.
In fact, over 20 percent of Black women age 25-34 report having been sent home from work because of their hair, and Black women are 54 percent more likely to report having to feel that they need to wear their hair straightened to a job interview. Black women’s hair is 2.5 times more likely to be perceived as unprofessional.
The CROWN Act aims to address these types of prejudices directly by banning discrimination based on hairstyles commonly associated with a particular race or national origin, including tightly coiled or curled hair, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros.
It’s time that the long history of implicit and explicit biases against natural hair comes to an end. Black hair is beautiful in all of its forms and styles, and we must ensure individuals are free to express their cultural identities without fear of prejudice or bias.
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We are excited to announce the launch of the transformational Xavier Ochsner School of Medicine (#XOCOM), which will be in the burgeoning BioDistrict New Orleans, located downtown in the Benson Tower! (1/2)
“Greene said if a worker is terminated or harassed for wearing BLM gear ‘the employee may have an actionable retaliation claim under federal employment statutes such as Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act”—my take in 2020 to @BusinessInsider; 1st Circuit affirms in 2024.⚖️
Whole Foods hasn't yet proven that its firing of a worker who wore a Black Lives Matter mask to work wasn't retaliatory, the First Circuit said in an opinion unsealed Wednesday. law360.com/articles/1829361
