Assemblywoman Angela McKnight calls it a blow to civil rights
The CROWN Act aims to protect people of color from discrimination if they choose to wear their hair in its natural state. The bill had been moving through Congress after being passed by the House this year, but it was blocked in the Senate this week by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).
A state version of the measure is law in New Jersey, and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-Hudson), who led that bill through the State House, said Paul’s move is a blow to civil rights around the country.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
