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This bill, known as the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act of 2025, aims to prohibit discrimination based on hair texture and hairstyles traditionally associated with race or national origin. The legislation addresses a longstanding issue of racial bias where individuals, particularly people of African descent, have faced discrimination in various settings due to their natural hair characteristics. The bill expands existing civil rights protections to explicitly prohibit discrimination in federally assisted programs, housing, public accommodations, employment, and other contexts based on hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros. By amending several key civil rights laws, the bill provides legal recourse for individuals who have been denied opportunities or subjected to unfair treatment because of hair texture or hairstyles commonly associated with specific racial or ethnic groups. The legislation recognizes that hair-based discrimination is a form of racial and national origin discrimination and seeks to ensure that individuals are not penalized or disadvantaged because of hairstyles that are integral to their cultural identity. The bill draws attention to historical and contemporary instances of bias, such as the U.S. Armed Forces' previous grooming policies that described natural hairstyles as "unkempt," and aims to create clear, comprehensive legal standards to protect individuals from such discriminatory practices.

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