Discrimination

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February 3, 2010
OPINION - America still falls short of its high ideals, but today far more Americans believe that all men are…
January 22, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - The city must revamp fire department hiring practices that discriminated against black applicants and possibly pay…
January 12, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - One year after the election of Obama, black optimism about America has surged, while Hispanics have become…
January 8, 2010
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's widespread use of a written exam to promote police sergeants discriminates against blacks and…
January 6, 2010
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Investigators say Johnny Lee Wicks was on a suicide mission the day he walked three miles…
November 16, 2009
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store, the schoolteacher faces a trial that…
November 16, 2009
OPINION - In the lead up to the rally for Heather Ellis today in Kennett, Missouri, I've heard shocking stories…
November 15, 2009
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A suburban swim club accused of revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to…
November 4, 2009
OPINION - In Grant Park one year ago, a multigenerational, multiracial crowd celebrated the change they could believe in: a…
November 3, 2009
Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling has agreed to pay a record $2.725 million to settle…
November 3, 2009
VIDEO - Dallas police chief David Kunkle met behind closed doors Monday with nearly two dozen officers who ticketed drivers…
October 21, 2009
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) - A class-action lawsuit describes how a local 107-year-old company discriminated against its black employees, assigning them…
October 16, 2009
VIDEO - Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish in the southeastern part of the state,…
October 16, 2009
OPINION - From one parent to another, more work needs to be done to protect our children regardless of their…
October 15, 2009
HAMMOND, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an…
October 14, 2009
OPINION - The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the…
September 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A state panel has found probable cause of racial discrimination at a suburban Philadelphia swim club...
August 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- County officials on Tuesday approved a plan to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital…
August 6, 2009
Today marks the 44th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act. It was passed to reverse Jim Crow laws, which…
August 3, 2009
Illinois filed a lawsuit on Friday against Wells Fargo & Co. accusing it of discriminating against black and Latino homeowners…