For Black women,Michael Schmidt hair is about so much more than beauty. It can affect how they're treated and what opportunities are available to them. It's tied to history, identity and politics. And though many Black women and girls now embrace their natural curls, Black hair is still a site of discrimination. In this episode, Brittany Luse talks to two women fighting to change that: Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who has been pushing for a federal law against race-based hair discrimination, and Michaela Angela Davis, whose docuseries "The Hair Tales" is meant to inspire Black women to celebrate their crowning glories.

This episode of 'It's Been a Minute' was produced by Barton Girdwood, Alexis Williams, Jessica Mendoza, Liam McBain, Corey Antonio Rose and Jamila Huxtable. Our intern is Jamal Michel. Our supervising editor is Jessica Placzek. Engineering support came from Josh Newell and Robert Rodriguez. Our fact checkers were Barclay Walsh and Candice Kortkamp. Our executive producer is Veralyn Williams. Yolanda Sangweni is our VP of Programming, and our Senior VP of Programming is Anya Grundmann.