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I was quoted on the Senate floor!

My recent column, “Call Me Black, Not BIPOC” was quoted by Connecticut State Senator Marilyn Moore while she spoke in favor of #TheCrownAct, a bill that bans natural hair discrimination in the workplace. "'She pointed to a recent New Haven Register op-ed by columnist Stacy Graham-Hunt, a journalist who is also the director of membership at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven," Lucy Gellman of the Arts Paper reported. In the piece, Graham-Hunt argues that wide adoption of the term…