By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA National Correspondent
Attorney Ben Crump Files Lawsuit on Behalf of User of Chemical Hair Straightening Products
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October 27, 2022
Some chemicals have been affecting women's hair during processing for years
Researchers have discovered that hair products used predominately by Black women are likely to contain hazardous chemicals with endocrine-disrupting
and carcinogenic properties. Armed with that information and research by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, civil rights attorney Ben Crump
joined forces with lawyer Diandra "Fu" Debrosse Zimmermann to file a lawsuit against beauty products giant L' Oréal USA.
Crump and Zimmermann filed the suit on behalf of Jenny Mitchell, a woman with no family history of cancer but who received a uterine cancer diagnosis
after years of using L'...
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