Megyn: Don’t Touch My Hair! | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s SoloPod, our guest is Dr. Adjoa B. Asamoah, leader of the CROWN act movement, which recently saw yet another victory in Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania CROWN act, and others like it, classify protective hairstyles (like braids and dreadlocks) as a racial characteristic. That makes it illegal to forbid those hair styles at schools and in work places.
Michelle Obama has been outspoken lately about the need to protect our hair, much to the chagrin of rightwing media personality and biggest Karen on Earth: Megyn Kelly.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Land Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:16.7 | Thank you, Governor Shapiro for that warm wealth. |
| 0:19.9 | But somehow a neighbor of mine, and I tell him this when I see him, he said, you know, your hair looks really nice like that. |
| 0:25.9 | You don't have to wear it straight. |
| 0:27.7 | And it was that conversation at 61st in Baltimore that gave me the confidence to try something new for myself. |
| 0:34.2 | And I had no idea at the time that there would ever be an opportunity to change |
| 0:39.2 | the law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And I'll tell you, my mother, when I left the house, |
| 0:45.6 | said, now, what's this law really going to do? How is it going to really help people and how is it going |
| 0:51.1 | to change things in Pennsylvania? And I had to run because I was a little late. |
| 0:55.8 | But mom, if you're watching, this is going to help people by making sure that wherever |
| 1:01.6 | you work or wherever you're applying for a job, they can't look at your hair and size |
| 1:05.6 | you up, not based on your qualifications and all of the professional development you have |
| 1:10.7 | and all of your education. They will not look at your hair and decide of the professional development you have and all of your |
| 1:11.2 | education, they will not look at your hair and decide you can't work here. |
| 1:15.1 | That's right. |
| 1:15.6 | They will not look at your hair and decide you don't belong in this C-suite. |
| 1:19.3 | They will not look at your hair and say you can't be in the boardroom. |
| 1:22.8 | So I don't know if the headlines get to heaven, but if they do, I hope my grandmother gets to see this moment. |
| 1:30.3 | Welcome home, y'all. It is an honor to be with you after the holiday. |
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