Massachusetts Tag

Massachusetts has develop into the 18th state to adopt a version of the CROWN Act. On July 18 Governor Charlie Baker signed the bill into law which prohibits discrimination based on hairstyles. In 2017, the difficulty of hair discrimination got here to light within the northern state when then-15-year-old twin Black girls, Deanna and Mya Cook were allegedly penalized at college for wearing hair extensions while their white counterparts weren't ridiculed for violating hair protocols. The twins—now students at University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth respectively—attended the bill signing ceremony last month and showed their gratitude to all of those that fought for the statute to be signed into law. Mya said, “It feels amazing to know that we’ve modified so...