Interview #2

“I don’t think that this is something that just started being a problem. When I was younger, I used to watch the news with my grandma and all of the news anchors, both black and white, has straight hair, no curls.” This person has been in the business for about three years now, and she says she knows that straight hair is what news directors hire. But with the recent murders of black men by police officers, she says the Black Lives Matter movement is something that goes beyond the murders. “Black Lives Matter, Black Hair Matters, Black People Matter. It just sucks that we have to conform and give in every single time. We don’t have the option of wearing our natural curly hair or weave, our only option is to look as similar to our white female coworkers as possible.”