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Prohibits discrimination based on hair texture or hairstyles commonly associated with a particular race or national origin. It applies to jobs, housing, public places, federally funded programs, and contractual rights. It lists examples like locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, Afros, and tightly coiled or tightly curled hair, and uses existing civil rights laws for enforcement. It also makes clear this change does not narrow how “race” or “national origin” are defined in current civil rights protections.
Throughout United States history, society has used hair texture and hairstyle (along with skin color) to classify individuals on the basis of race.
Like one’s skin color, one’s hair has served as a basis for race and national origin discrimination.
Racial and national origin discrimination can and do occur because of longstanding racial and national origin biases and stereotypes associated with hair texture and style.
People of African descent have been deprived of educational and employment opportunities because they wear natural or protective hairstyles (including tightly coiled or tightly curled styles, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, or Afros).
School and workplace policies and practices have barred natural or protective hairstyles commonly worn by people of African descent, reflecting racial and national origin discrimination.
Adds a new statutory prohibition (in this Act’s section) against practices prohibited under sections 201–203 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on hair texture or hairstyle commonly associated with a particular race or national origin, and directs that that prohibition be enforced in the same manner, by the same means, and with the same jurisdiction as if the prohibition were incorporated into Title II (42 U.S.C. 2000a) and treated as a violation of sections 201, 202, or 203 as appropriate of that Act.
Provides that subsection (a) of this Act (prohibiting discrimination based on hair texture or hairstyles commonly associated with a race or national origin) shall be enforced in the same manner and by the same means as if that subsection were incorporated into title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and treated as a violation of section 601 of that Act.
Adds an expressly enforceable protection against discrimination based on a person’s hair texture or hairstyle when that hair or style is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin, and makes that protection enforceable in the same manner and with the same jurisdiction as section 1977 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1981).
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CROWN Act of 2025
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced February 26, 2025 by Bonnie Watson Coleman · Last progress February 26, 2025
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House