In February 2019, the New York City Commission on Human Rights amended the New York City Human Rights Law to ban discrimination against natural hairstyles as part of the Law’s prohibition against race or color discrimination. This past July, California created the CROWN Act (“Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair” (SB 188)) proposed by Sen. Holly J. Mitchell (D-Calif.). CROWN prohibits policies that discriminate against natural hair and natural hairstyles associated with…