#FreeTheHair
Professor D. Wendy Greene, J.D., LL.M., thought leader and founder
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
www.freethehair.com
Interviews and informational videos
- Mane Moves Live! “Natural Hair & The Law” with Natasha Gaspard and Professor Wendy Greene: https://youtu.be/QkG5wDTsUCc
- Law 360 Glass Ceiling report, “Wearing Natural Hair in Big Law,” on which Professor Greene consulted: https://youtu.be/xCcpdvKkU24
- “The CROWN Act & Transforming the Rules of Professionalism around Black Hair” by Natalie Runyon for Thomson Reuters: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/government/crown-act-legal-professionalism/
- Celebrating the Anniversary of the California C.R.O.W.N. Act—an interview with Lisa Deaderick and Professor Wendy Greene for the San Diego Tribune: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2020-07-19/anniversary-of-californias-crown-act-affirming-hair-discrimination-is-racial-discrimination
- Now This News: Carmelyn Malalis and Wendy Greene Fought and Won the NYC Hair Discrimination Law:: https://nowthisnews.com/videos/her/carmelyn-malalis-and-wendy-greene-won-the-nyc-hair-discrimination-law
Professor Greene’s legal scholarship on race-based natural hair discrimination and grooming codes discrimination in workplaces
- Wendy Greene, Splitting Hairs: The 11thCircuit’s Take on Workplace Bans against Black Women’s Natural Hair in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol71/iss4/5/
- Wendy Greene, Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Based Characteristics Got to Do with It?: https://cms.detr.nv.gov/Content/Media/Greene_Title_7_Article.pdf
- Wendy Greene, A Multidimensional Analysis of What Not to Wear in the Workplace: Hijabs and Natural Hair: https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=lawreview
- Angela Onwuachi-Willig, More Hair Raising Decisions and How Professor Wendy Greene Combs Through Their Flaws: https://worklaw.jotwell.com/more-hair-raising-decisions-and-how-professor-wendy-greene-combs-through-their-flaws/
Full opinions in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions—the latest Title VII race-discrimination case challenging a workplace ban against locs decided by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which served as an impetus for the C.R.O.W.N. Acts and parallel legal reforms
- http://www.dreadlocks.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/EEOC-v.-CATASTROPHIC-MANAGEMENT-SOLUTIONS.pdf
- https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/14-13482/14-13482-2017-12-05.html
Amicus Brief filed by the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund, Legal Aid Society—Employment Law Center, Professor D. Wendy Greene, and Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig in support of a hearing en banc in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions:
- H.R. 5309: the federal C.R.O.W.N. Act passed by the United States House of Representatives (2020): https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5309/text
- NAACP-LDF’s primer on Natural Hair Discrimination Resources: https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/LDF-Primer-on-Hair-Discrimination-Resources-FINAL.pdf
Additional videos and documentaries
- “Back to Natural”: a film by Gillian Scott-Ward, Ph.D. https://www.amazon.com/Back-Natural-Salamisha-Tillet/dp/B07Z5FW44Y
- Good Morning America segment: “This is the Story of Black Hair”featuring Emma Dabiri, author of Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/story-black-hair-75799805
- “Hair Love” short film by Matthew Cherry https://youtu.be/kNw8V_Fkw28