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Are Chemical Hair Straightening Products Harmful to Black Women?

Congresswoman Chantel Brown out of Ohio is leading an effort to ban race-based hair discrimination. Studies have found that chemical hair straighteners could pose serious health risks like uterine cancer. Harmful chemicals have been found in many other products advertised to black women. No matter how we wear our hair, we should be allowed to show up in the world as our full cells without putting our health at risk.

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