Male student suspended for wearing a skirt
WASHINGTON - A male student was suspended from a southern Maryland school for wearing girls' clothing, and the incident has sparked a big controversy in Calvert County...
App created to report airport racial profiling
Civil rights groups are developing an idea for an app that would allow people to report in 'real time' when they are being racially profiled during airport searches...
Iowa judge rejects theory of 'implicit bias'
(AP) - A judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday that claimed Iowa's state government systemically discriminated against black job applicants by allowing subtle racial bias to creep into virtually every hiring and promotion decision...
Black women battle 'Mad Men' in corporate America
As Rebecca Carroll watched the season premiere of 'Mad Men' she was reminded of time when racial inequality was acceptable...
Blacks in South African feel discriminated against
Many people in Capetown, South African feel that no matter how much success they achieve as long as they are black they will always be second class...
NYC judge: Minorities owed at least $128 mil
NEW YORK - New York City Judge Nicholas Garaufis has announced that at least $128 million is owed to Latinos and African Americans on discrimination charges by the New York City Fire Department...
Blacks bear brunt of US drug charges
While African-Americans only compose 14 percent of the drug users in the United States they compose 37 percent of those arrested for drug offenses...
Muslim spying scandal increases scrutiny of NYPD
theGRIO REPORT - The New York Police Department is facing increasing criticism, once again, for what some are calling inappropriate surveillance in minority communities...
Affirmative action ruling could hurt black students
OPINION - The fact that most African-Americans have not benefited from affirmative action programs in university admissions and does not reduce the cause for alarm about a negative ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas...
Denied jobs, blacks test new bias theory
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A judge will soon decide whether to grant thousands of black employees and job applicants monetary damages for hiring practices throughout Iowa's state government they say have disadvantaged them for decades...
