New York orders salon schools to teach curly hair treatment to curb racial discrimination

The state rules were published earlier this month — about a week after a black woman and her daughter filed a federal discrimination suit against an Ulta Beauty salon on the Upper East Side, claiming stylists there told them they don’t cut “your kind of hair.”

https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/new-york-orders-salon-schools-to-teach-curly-hair-treatment-to-curb-racial-discrimination/