Black service women are celebrating a change in army hairstyle that is now allowing locks…. Of course, there are still rules in place but it’s a big step that starts to lessen discrimination against traditionally black hairstyles.

Last month the Army directive made the change with some other grooming polices that were related to religious accommodations, this seems to have put cultural considerations in it’s changes too.

The changes happened to what is known as Army Regulation 670-1.

Sgt. Maj. Anthony J. Moore of the Army’s office of the deputy chief of staff for personnel said:

“We understood there was no need to differentiate between locks, cornrows or twists as long as they all met the same dimension,” he said, according to The Northwest Guardian, a publication of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State. “Females have been asking for a while, especially females of African-American descent, to be able to wear dreadlocks and locks because it’s easier to maintain that hairstyle.”

Each lock will have to be uniform in dimension and have a diameter of no more than half an inch. It needs to be professional and well groomed.

Staff Sgt. Chaunsey Logan of Fort Stewart in Georgia psoted a video posted to Facebook saying:

“January 5, in the year of our Lord 2017, we are now allowed to wear locks in uniform,”

Watch her video below:

Read more in the NYT.