Black Women Are Rewriting The Corporate Natural Hair Narrative

Essence Magazine:

By Donnetta Monk ·Updated February 24, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

During my first year in corporate, I was taken aback when my coworker made an off-hand comment. He mentioned that my many different hair>CROWN research study revealed that Black women’s hair is two-and-a-half times more likely to be perceived as unprofessional. And, for many of us, that’s not just a statistic, it’s our reality. 

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