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EEOC’S Attempt to Ban Dreadlock Discrimination Fails

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s attempt to ban “dreadlock discrimination” against African-Americans has failed after a court dismissed the case. An Alabama judge dismissed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s argument that African-American hair is very strongly linked to African tradition, and therefore, workplace grooming policies that prohibited dreadlocks could be held as discriminatory under… Read More »