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10-YEAR BATTLE WON
Cruising Heights
|December 2022
A black Air France steward won a 10-year legal battle for the right to work with braided hair on flights after a decision by France's highest appeals court.
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Aboubakar Toure from Paris sued the airline in 2012 for discrimination after he was barred from flights once he changed his hairstyle to have short dreadlocks tied behind his head.
This story is from the December 2022 edition of Cruising Heights.
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