Straighten your afro hair or lose your job? Keeping an eye on Harrods

“A Black woman applying to work at Harrods was told she would not get the roleunless she chemically straightened her hair...” - Source: The Telegraph online 25January 2017, 12:01 AM.

This story came out five days after Donald Trumpʼs inauguration as the 45th President of the United States. This bothered me because I wonder who saw it, did you? It is often the case with discrimination cases, the facts are so unique and particular to the individual that if that individual is not given the support and necessary platform to voice what is happening to them, it gets lost. Worse than that, treated as relatively insignificant.

Was this decision of Harrods anact of race discrimination?