Should Colorado employers be banned from telling employees how to style their hair?
"This bill will bar discrimination based on ethnic hair styles," Rep. Leslie Herod (D-Denver) said. "They have the ability to bring this to the civil rights commission and file a claim." "The bill applies all races, and to both men and women." Read full article #LeslieHerod #discrimination #hair #naturalhair #CrownAct
"It makes me feel safer to be who I am”: Colorado House bill aims to ban discrimination against
“It’s time we make a clear statement in Colorado that discrimination in that form is not OK and be very explicit in the fact that people who choose to wear their hairstyle in way that reflects their culture, their heritage, that that should be embraced and not discriminated against,” Herod said." Read full article #LeslieHerod #discrimination #hair #naturalhair #CrownAct
Colorado’s New Era of Ill Will
“We all have a responsibility in this,” says state Representative Leslie Herod. “We all have biases. We have all done things that were harmful. But we need to be honest about what is happening in our society.” Read full article #LeslieHerod #hate #hatecrime #discrimination
2018 Legislative Scorecard
Colorado’s legislative session is 120 days and a great deal happens in these mere four months that affect many Coloradans. For example, in the 2018 session, transportation and education saw unprecedented gains in funding. The legislature infused $645 million into multi-modal transportation and infrastructure and increased per pupil funding by $469 per student. Civil liberties legislation rarely gets much attention. The one exception this year was the reauthorization of the Co
CCRD RESCUE GOES INTO EFFECT SUNDAY
Legislation that preserves a strong and effective Colorado Civil Rights Division, the agency charged with protecting Coloradans from discrimination since 1951, is going into effect on July 1, the beginning of the state’s 2018-19 fiscal year. “By protecting a strong Civil Rights Division and Commission, we protect Coloradans from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations,” said Speaker Crisanta Duran, who sponsored HB18-1256. Her co-prime sponsor, Rep. Le
Denver Weighs Ban on Source-of-Income Discrimination
Councilwoman At-large Robin Kniech introduced a bill last week that would require landlords to accept all forms of payment, including vouchers. Owner-occupied duplexes and single family homes would be exempted. “This policy is about someone who can afford an apartment…but, ‘I’m turned away because of how I’m paying,’” Kniech said at a city meeting last week, according to Denverite. “This is about stopping discrimination.” Read full article #discrimination #affordablehousing #
31 new state laws are now in effect
While the court didn't rule that it was permissible to discriminate against gays or lesbians, it did say the commission treated the baker unfairly in a complaint filed against him, saying the panel was unfairly hostile to the baker, violating his free-speech rights in the process. As a result of that case, some members of the Legislature tried to alter the makeup of the commission to add more business representatives to it. Much of that effort failed, but the panel was altere
The Miseducation of Youth: A panel on education and history
Join Curious for a panel discussion about Race, Oppression, and Slavery in our schools and classrooms. How do we teach and how should we teach our next generation about America's fraught racial legacy of enslavement, oppression, and violence? Without guidance and support from educators, many students leave school without grappling with how our nation's past continues to shape our country today in both systemic and personal ways. Without careful examination of curriculum, many
House Democrats Force Senate to Negotiate Civil Rights Division Reauthorization
The governor currently appoints all seven members of the commission, but that could change under the to-be-debated Senate amendments, which would increase the commission to a nine-member body and divvy up appointments. The governor would appoint five members, and the ranking House and Senate members of the political party opposite the governor's would appoint two members each. The Senate amendments would also require the commission to include representatives of labor unions,
