Discrimination

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February 17, 2012
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A judge will soon decide whether to grant thousands of black employees and job applicants…
February 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A pair of Norfolk social workers visited their home and said because their foster baby is black,…
February 14, 2012
BOSSIP - Court files show that lawyers representing plaintiff Mark McHenry and Landmark Steakhouse of Corona del Mar agreed to…
February 14, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Backers of affirmative action asked a federal appeals court Monday to overturn California's 15-year-old ban on…
January 13, 2012
LDS church leaders have long complained that critics take obscure or outdated Mormon teachings and describe them as core doctrine...
January 11, 2012
A Panera Bread franchisee had a policy of keeping "fat, black or ugly" people off of the cash registers and…
January 11, 2012
In addition to the monetary relief, a three-year consent decree bars Matrix from engaging in further race discrimination, and they…
January 6, 2012
CONNECTICUT - In 2009, 20 New Haven firefighters, known as the 'New Haven 20,' won a reverse discrimination case that…
December 28, 2011
Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that there were no racial overtones when…
December 22, 2011
OPINION - For many African-Americans the dreams of rising as a firefighter have been forced to give way due to…
December 21, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Bank of America has agreed to pay $335 million to resolve allegations that its Countrywide unit…
December 16, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A black former Defense Department worker has filed a discrimination lawsuit alleging workplace harassment prompted one of…
December 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A state commission may reconsider its decision that a landlord discriminated against an African-American teenager by posting…
December 14, 2011
MADRID (AP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Spanish authorities of using racial and ethnic profiling, with police singling out…
December 5, 2011
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An eastern Kentucky church under a firestorm of criticism since members voted to bar mixed-race couples…
December 2, 2011
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The settlement states that Savannah State still insists it did nothing wrong...
December 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The well-publicized story about the rural all-white church in Kentucky passing a vote to ban interracial couples…
December 1, 2011
CHICAGO - More than a dozen current and former employees of a Comcast facility on Chicago's South Side have filed…
December 1, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) - A tiny all-white church in the rural South has voted to ban interracial couples from joining…
November 29, 2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Labor officials have moved to cut off federal contracts held by one of the nation's…