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Banana Republic

A black teenager who worked as a Banana Republic sales associate at the Westchester Mall <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/banana-braids.pdf"><strong>claims in court</strong></a> that she lost her job because she refused to unbraid her hair after a manager called the hairstyle “too urban” and “unkempt.”

MANHATTAN – A black teenager who worked as a Banana Republic sales associate at the Westchester Mall claims in court that she lost her job because she refused to unbraid her hair after a manager called the hairstyle “too urban” and “unkempt.”

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