Posted on 05/30/2005 10:00:15 AM PDT by Asphalt
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Alabama woman is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against a Dillard's Inc. hair salon for allegedly charging black women more than white women.
Debbie Deavers Sturvisant alleges that a hair salon in a Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dillard's department store charged $35 to wash and set her hair, while white women paid $20 for the same service.
Sturvisant's lawsuit could bring a whole new level of attention to the general practice across the country of charging differently for hair care based on ethnicity.
Officials in Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland and Massachusetts have already addressed race- and sex-based pricing differences at hair salons.
"The stereotype is that all black hair is the same. But that's erroneous...
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Um. I'm not all that into music. I never inherited the genes I guess.
Same here. I had a white stylist do my hair once. Never again.
It seems to me that allot more Black stylist are able to do white hair than the other way around.
I believe you have a point there.
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