Today on Business Daily with me, Vivienne Nunes, when your hair becomes an issue at work,

we hear about the global movement to reclaim African hairstyles in offices and schools,

as well as in books and on film.

So our mothers couldn't teach us how to deal with natural hair.

We actually did teach our mothers how to deal with their own hair.

So the internet gave us, like, digital mothers.

And we find out why prejudice towards some hairstyles

has existed for so many generations.

People within our sort of middle-class environment were doing it,

and if your children weren't doing it too,

then it looked like you were backwards in their opinion

of what being forward, modern African-Canon people was.

Business Daily from the BBC.

Hi, my name is Olivia, Savannah Logan.

I started a Instagram account called Corporate with Cornrose,

and I also utilized that name on Twitter as well. When Olivia started a new job as a paralegal in a New York real estate firm a few years ago,

something came up again and again. Comments about her hairstyle.

I was wearing a style that's called Corn Rose, and basically that style protects my natural hair.

And it's also a style that I just love and embrace culturally.

But when I wore that style to the workplace, I was met with different comments and a series of microaggressions

in which I realized that there were loopholes in which black people can be oppressed,

even though there's legislation in the United States and in New York specifically to appear

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