{"id":44503,"date":"2025-11-25T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:05:08","slug":"pennsylvania-adopts-crown-act-preventing-discrimination-based-on-a-persons-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44503\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania adopts CROWN Act, preventing discrimination based on a person&#8217;s hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania took a major step towards equality when it comes to natural hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Governor Josh Shapiro was at the Island Design Natural Hair Studio in Philadelphia&#8217;s Parkside neighborhood on Tuesday morning to officially sign a bill, known as the CROWN Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It prevents discrimination based on a person&#8217;s hair type, texture or style in schools, the workplace and social venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania is now the 28th state to adopt the CROWN Act, joining New Jersey and Delaware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania took a major step towards equality when it comes to natural hair. Governor Josh Shapiro was at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24066,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-44503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-natural-hair","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}