Today on Business Daily with me Vivian 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 had to 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 cornrows, 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 that we're progressive, we still have a long way to go.

So there weren't rules specifically forbidding this hairstyle in your

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