Despite accounting for nearly one-third of the local populous, black and Latino students compose less than three percent of the overall student body at a prestigious Fairfax, Va. high school. This is prompting the NAACP to charge in a federal discrimination complaint that the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology board long ago […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A predominantly white Mississippi church has apologized for its refusal to allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary, though the couple said Monday they knew nothing of the apology until a reporter called. The First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs posted the apology on its website Sunday, saying it […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The entire U.S. government seems to be lined up against Westchester County these days. The county just north of New York City, home to actors, ballplayers, Clintons and Kennedys, is mired in a housing dispute that encompasses race, taxes, zoning and other sensitive suburban issues. The Justice Department, the Department […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo Bank will pay at least $175 million to settle accusations that it discriminated against African-American and Hispanic borrowers in violation of fair-lending laws, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Wells Fargo, the nation's largest residential home mortgage originator, allegedly engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against qualified African-American and […]
United Airlines, the world's largest passenger carrier, was slapped this week with a lawsuit charging that the gigantic, international partnership refuses to promote black pilots and operations supervisors. The suit is the third attempt within three years to seek legal redress for what plaintiffs say are a long series of workplace abuses predicated on skin […]
Explosive testimony in a New York City police department discrimination suit alleges that a pair of high-ranking superiors who once oversaw the day-to-day operations of an elite anti-gun unit ruled with such an iron hand they arbitrarily delegated which white suspects should be treated with respect, even as they routinely browbeat underlings into thinking all […]
