Mel B has joined this yr’s World Afro Day marketing campaign, to have an effect on change in terms of hair discrimination within the UK.
The marketing campaign will urge MPs to replace the Equality Act as a way to make afro hair a protected attribute. Whether it is profitable, the UK could be the primary Western nation to introduce legislation to finish afro hair discrimination.
“The very first video shoot I did as a Spice Woman for Wannabe, the stylists took one have a look at my hair and instructed me it needed to be straightened,” Mel mentioned. “My large hair didn’t match the pop star mould. However I stood my floor – backed by my ladies – and I sang and danced as me, with my large hair, my brown pores and skin and I used to be completely pleased with who I used to be.
“So sure, I’m proud to help World Afro Day in its name for the Equality Act to guard towards afro hair discrimination within the UK.”
An open letter, signed by 100 campaigners together with Mel, Labour MP Paulette Hamilton, Beverley Knight and Fleur East, warns that “omission of hair as a protected attribute from the legislation has facilitated on a regular basis discrimination and the normalisation of afro hair as inferior in each sphere of life”.
The marketing campaign is ready to host a drop-in clinic at Parliament with Hamilton and World Afro Day founder Michelle De Leon with their youngsters, as a way to “concentrate on the change for the following technology”.
“As Birmingham’s first black MP, and as a mom to 4 daughters, I do know the influence this marketing campaign may have on my area people and on folks with afro hair throughout the UK,” Hamilton mentioned.
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What’s World Afro Day?
fifteenth September is World Afro Day, a worldwide day for hundreds of thousands to rejoice the fantastic thing about their afro hair and to really feel pleased with their naturally kinky, coiled or curly strands.