MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Assembly voted 88-5 to drop a law that required a barber or cosmetology license to braid hair. The bill next goes to the Senate. The bill’s major sponsors, Representative Sheila Stubbs, D-Madison, and Senator LaTonya Johnson, D-Milwaukee, who are black, argued that he licensing requirement was racist. Hair-braiding, they said, is a natural and ancient craft.
