Free The Hair

07/09/2025

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Hair is never “just hair.” It reflects identity, culture, health, and justice — and too often, it’s where inequities and discrimination show up.

The last weekend of September, Drexel Law Review, in collaboration with Professor D. Wendy Greene, director of the Center for Law, Policy & Social Action, will host its largest symposium to date, bringing together academics, policymakers, health professionals, advocates, and hair care professionals for 11 panels and 50+ participants.

Drexel Law Review Symposium 2025 | Weaving It All Together: Hair, Health, Law & Policy
📅 September 25–27, 2025
📍 Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | Philadelphia, PA

Program highlights include:

💡 Keynote by Nebraska State Senator Ashlei Spivey- Arthur, founder of I Be Black Girl
🔥 Fireside Chat on Chemical Relaxer Litigation, moderated by Attorney Tom Kline
⚖️ Panel on Hair Product Regulation & Health Equity, led by Professor Elizabeth Kukura
⚖️ Panel on the Power of Natural Hair Care Professionals in Policymaking featuring the Natural Hair and Braiding Coalition founders
✍🏾 Storytelling, Narrative & Activism with a special reading by Michaela angela Davis from her forthcoming memoir: “Tenderheaded”
🌍 Global perspectives from speakers across four continents

🔗 Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eMY-yGtN

03/07/2024

26/04/2024

Always excited to explore all things but most especially in my hometown! I look forward to sharing the stage with Dr. Kimberly Eison Simmons and master loctician, Maquita James, tomorrow.

We will examine the significance of hair throughout the African diaspora, hair discrimination, the CROWN Act alongside other legal, social and personal reforms aimed to bring about hair equality.

Join us in person at the Richland County (Sandhills) Library or virtually from noon to 1:30!🌟

The Hair

Join the Richland Library's African American History and Culture Events Committee for a candid discussion touching on the C.R.O.W.N. Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act) and Hair Discrimination. The program will have a panel discussion and a Q&A session for the audience to...

23/04/2024

Beyond excited and honored to deliver the 2024 Hartman Hotz lecture at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville: : Locking Black Hair to Civil Rights Movements!

Many, many thanks to Dean Cynthia Nance and the Fayetteville community for the warmest of welcomes and engagement with my scholarly activism to affirm our human right to express our identities freely and to be free of discrimination when doing so.🌟

Professor D. Wendy Greene will deliver the 2024 Hartman Hotz Lecture

12/04/2024

Elated and honored to deliver the 2024 Hartman Hotz Lecture in Law and Liberal Arts—“ : Locking Black Hair to Civil Rights Movements!”

Immensely grateful for the invitation by Dean Cynthia Nance to share with the University of Arkansas community not only my scholarly activism to combat race-based hair discrimination but also how this contemporary civil rights issue is core to historical and transnational emancipatory movements. ⭐️

Drexel University’s Greene, a legal expert on grooming code discrimination, will deliver the 2024 Hartman Hotz Lecture in Law and Liberal Arts on April 23.

18/10/2023

In 2019, the Office of the NJ Attorney General issued groundbreaking enforcement guidance to redress race-based grooming codes discrimination and again, they are making groundbreaking moves to !

As a speaker for the Office of the NJ AG Racial Justice Speakers Series, I look forward to exploring our collective work to realize racial justice by addressing this longstanding form of racial discrimination affecting African descendants and other people of color in the U.S. and abroad.

“I believe we are morally obligated to pursue and promote racial justice, said New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin in a statement. Ensuring greater equity and justice for underserved communities across our diverse state remains one of my top priorities.”

27/09/2023

The family of Darryl George, a Black student suspended over his locs, argues in a lawsuit that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) hasn’t enforced the Crown Act.

21/09/2023

“We’re dealing with the policing of a hairstyle that African descendants historically and commonly wear and is associated with our racial and cultural identities; it is a form of racial discrimination”~my commentary shared with NBC Nightly News regarding a TX high school’s ban against locs worn by Black male students.

Darryl George, a high school junior in Texas, has been suspended from school twice this year because of his hairstyle. The school district says he violated their grooming code which prohibits male students’ hair from extending below the eyebrows or ear lobes. It comes as the state’s CROWN Act ju...

12/09/2023

Join founder, Professor Wendy Greene, and incredible advocates from around the world for the Seventh Annual Friday, September 15th: a global celebration of African descendants’ hair diversity and a designated day of affirmation, education and inspiration to —to combat race-based hair discrimination in our workplaces and professional spaces!

In London this Friday? Join us in person. If not, no worries! You can join us virtually. Registration link⬆️

30/08/2023

What a beautiful testimonial of the enormous impact Founder, Professor D. Wendy Greene, is making through her professional life’s work to realize racial diversity, equity, and inclusion by combating race-based hair discrimination in workplaces and beyond.

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gave a fantastic presentation at the LSBA 15th Annual Conclave on Diversity in the Legal Profession this week on “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: What’s Hair Got to Do with It?” As a black woman who wears my natural hair in the workplace, I felt so seen! Many organizations have policies and norms that are racially discriminatory against African Americans on the basis of their natural and protective hairstyles like twists, braids, afros, and locs often under the guise of “professionalism”. Professor Wendy is working tirelessly to change that!

26/08/2023

Love to see the fruits and freedom of inter-generational Black entrepreneurship & ingenuity being celebrated. Way to go Micah James! Your Columbia, SC family and friends are so proud of you! 🌟

Michael James is the creator behind Frederick Benjamin Grooming, a line of products that caters to the needs of melanated skin and hair. He sits down with TODAY's Craig Melvin to talk about how coming from a family of entrepreneurs put him on his journey and how he's paying tribute to his grandfathe...