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Thank you for visiting our website and taking the time to learn more about us! Our purpose is to encourage foster/adoptive parents to ask questions and learn about basic natural hair care methods. I’m a true believer that all you need is love, patience, the right product and a good comb, and the rest will come!
The Beginning with MDHHS - 2016
Back to School event with MDHHS - 2022
Mid-Michigan Inter Agency Foster Care Coalition at Trinity Church - End of Summer Bash - 2023
The Gateway Resource Fair - 2023
Michigan Foster Care Closet (Ann Arbor) - 2023
legislation to watch: The crown act -MICHIGAN HB 4275
Did you know?
Black women are 1.5 times more likely to be sent home from the workplace because of their hair.
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How the CROWN Act is enacting change
While there is still a lot of work to do, there has been progress.
The CROWN Coalition sponsored The CROWN Act (SB 188) in California, introduced by Senator Holly J. Mitchell. California was the first state to sign The CROWN Act into law on July 3, 2019. With support from the CROWN Coalition, the bill is now law in 7 other states (CO, MD,
While there is still a lot of work to do, there has been progress.
The CROWN Coalition sponsored The CROWN Act (SB 188) in California, introduced by Senator Holly J. Mitchell. California was the first state to sign The CROWN Act into law on July 3, 2019. With support from the CROWN Coalition, the bill is now law in 7 other states (CO, MD, NY, NJ, VA, WA, CT).
In March 2021, the CROWN Act federal legislation was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and in the Senate by Sen. Cory Booker.
Once signed into law, these bills ensure that traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles, are protected from discrimination in the workplace and in K-12 public and charter schools. The CROWN Coalition continues to galvanize support for legislation to end hair discrimination federally and in all 50 states. Our CROWN petition has over 255,000 signatures so far, too, and you can sign it here.
Michigan Bill Updates
Michigan Bill Updates
Michigan legislature passes the CROWN Act, advances to governor's desk!
https://statenews.com/article/2023/06/michigan-house-votes-the-crown-act-bill-100-7
Banning natural hair discrimination in Michigan gets renewed push from Black lawmakers https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/02/banning-natural-hair-discrimination-in-michigan-gets-renewed
Michigan legislature passes the CROWN Act, advances to governor's desk!
https://statenews.com/article/2023/06/michigan-house-votes-the-crown-act-bill-100-7
Banning natural hair discrimination in Michigan gets renewed push from Black lawmakers https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/02/banning-natural-hair-discrimination-in-michigan-gets-renewed-push-from-black-lawmakers.html
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While laws to protect against hair discrimination have been passed in some local towns in Michigan, a bill to protect hair texture and style has been stalled in the state legislature.
House Bill 4275, also known as Michigan’s CROWN ACT, was first introduced in the House of Representatives in February. Since then, the bill has yet to move through the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee.
The bill is sponsored by Rep. Sarah Anthony, D-Lansing, and would add language into the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include hair texture and protective hairstyles as “traits historically associated with race.”
The Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act currently bans discrimination in Michigan in areas like employment, education and housing on the basis of “religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, or marital status.”
If passed, the CROWN Act law would prohibit discrimination based on hair texture and race-based hairstyles, including braids, dreadlocks, twists and afros. It was first introduced in the U.S., and later adopted, in 2019 in California by state Sen. Holly Mitchell.
House Bill 4275