Discrimination

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August 16, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's latest victory against job discrimination started with allegations of hangman's nooses, graffiti and racist comments…
August 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The St. Paul Public School District and Timothy Olmsted, 6th grade teacher at the Heights Community School…
August 6, 2012
PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Thursday it is 'unfortunate' that a predominantly white church in the…
August 3, 2012
CINCINNATI (AP) - Michael Gunn said he was so upset when he saw his landlord's poolside "White Only" sign that…
August 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In a recent hearing, The Ohio Civil Rights Commission has ruled a Cincinnati landlord discriminated against an…
July 22, 2012
A pair of former Bank of America and Cantor Fitzgerald have filed lawsuits against the finance giants, claiming the companies…
July 12, 2012
PHILADELPHIA - Attorney Dennis Young, who is representing a high school basketball coach who was fired last month, told NBC10…
June 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The last time Dorothy Flood took a train to visit family in the South she was not…
June 13, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A federal court jury has awarded $25 million in damages to a western New York steel…
June 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An organization of men interested in Alpha Kappa Alpha, known as MIKA, plan to file a lawsuit…
May 31, 2012
OPINION - Let’s face it: If Donald Trump were from a state south of the Mason Dixon line his birther…
May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON - A male student was suspended from a southern Maryland school for wearing girls' clothing, and the incident has…
April 26, 2012
Civil rights groups are developing an idea for an app that would allow people to report in 'real time' when…
April 18, 2012
(AP) - A judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday that claimed Iowa's state government systemically discriminated against black job applicants…
March 30, 2012
As Rebecca Carroll watched the season premiere of 'Mad Men' she was reminded of time when racial inequality was acceptable...
March 23, 2012
Many people in Capetown, South African feel that no matter how much success they achieve as long as they are…
March 12, 2012
NEW YORK - New York City Judge Nicholas Garaufis has announced that at least $128 million is owed to Latinos…
March 8, 2012
While African-Americans only compose 14 percent of the drug users in the United States they compose 37 percent of those…
March 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The New York Police Department is facing increasing criticism, once again, for what some are calling inappropriate…
February 24, 2012
OPINION - The fact that most African-Americans have not benefited from affirmative action programs in university admissions and does not…