Media Advisory - Black community members rally at TDSB headquarters to protest hair discrimination

TORONTO, Dec. 4, 2015 /CNW/ - Black Lives Matter - Toronto and Black community members with big, beautiful Black hair will demonstrate outside of the Toronto District School Board's Headquarters today to protest the treatment of a 13-year-old Black girl who was disciplined by her principal for wearing her natural hair at Amesbury Middle School. This demonstration will oppose the the shaming of this young black girl and highlight other instances of anti-Black racism within the Toronto District School Board.  

WHAT: Demonstration Against Anti-Black Racism in the Toronto District School Board
WHEN: Friday December 4, 2015
WHERE: Toronto District School Board Headquarters - 5050 Yonge Street  
TIME: 4:30 p.m.

Black Lives Matter-Toronto is the Toronto chapter of #BlackLivesMatter, an international organization and movement fighting police and State violence and anti-black racism.

SOURCE Black Lives Matter Toronto

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