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Podcast: Dimensions of Diversity
Episode: Black Hairstyles in the Workplace
Description: Host Lloyd Freeman is joined by Professor Wendy Greene of Drexel University in Philadelphia to examine the law and effects of racial discrimination against African descendants’ natural hair in the workplace.
Greene is the first tenured African American woman on the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law faculty and has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing racial, color, and gender equity in workplaces and beyond. Her 2008 article, “Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Base Characteristics) Got to Do with It?”, is being adopted in history-making state and federal legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N...