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GREENSBORO, N.C. A North Carolina author is celebrating after Greensboro and Durham city councils unanimously passed ordinances protecting against hair discrimination.
Greensboro and Durham city councils ban hair discrimination
Arial Robinson released a book titled Black Hair Care In Color: A Collection of Drawings
Robinson says growing up, she was told her hair was distracting
Arial Robinson, an N.C. A&T student, says growing up, she was told her hair was distracting, but now she embraces it.
This year, Robinson released a book titled
Black Hair Care In Color: A Collection of Drawings. She gained social media attention by promoting the book with a photo and caption reading, Marge Simpson is a Black woman.
By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 5:21 PM ET Feb. 23, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:21 PM EST Feb. 23, 2021
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Bronx Democrat and Dominican native, Assemblymember Karines Reyes, is a registered nurse who moonlights at a hospital in her district to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Reyes has seen first-hand the cost paid by frontline workers who lack protections against COVID-19. It’s the primary reason she is sponsoring the NY HERO Act (S.1034 – A.2681), a bill requiring businesses to have enforceable safety standards to prevent the spread of COVID-19. During the pandemic, we have seen profits rise at the expense of the health of our essential workers who do not receive essential protections, Reyes stated. We must pass the NY HERO Act to ensure that corporations profiting off of the labor of our communities are doin