Over the last 80 years, LDF has witnessed anti-Black racism take many forms, and we have fought each of them head-on. The trend of incidences where Black hairstyles are criminalized, and used to justify the removal children from classrooms, and adults from careers is a real, ongoing & noxious form of racial discrimination. Criminalizing the Black identity is not new to us. LDF plans to use the work of our founder Thurgood Marshall as a blueprint for justice as we press forward, push for the CROWN Act in all 50 states, and litigate a docket of hair discrimination matters to put an end to hair discrimination.
