Last week a heartbreaking video began to circulate the web of a little girl, named Faith, crying after being sent home from school because of her braids. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Montrelle Fennidy, 11-year-old Faith’s mother, who says that her daughter is having a difficult time. Faith was sent home from Christ […]
Earlier this year, Ruby Hamad wrote called, How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour, and it struck a nerve. It dug into the ways white women weaponize their emotions against women of color. Many women of color shared the article, including a Kansas City television reporter named Lisa Benson. Benson says she […]
A video floating around Instagram is prompting outrage after a student in Gretna, Louisiana was sent home from school because of her hairstyle. The student has a simple, pulled back and age-appropriate braided hairstyle, but was sent home because the school deemed her style “un-natural.” School administrators said it’s school policy for students to have only […]
The ritzy Miami hotel, SLS South Beach, has agreed to settle a discrimination suit with 17 Haitian dishwashers who say they were mistreated and eventually fired because of their background. The allegations are from 2014 and, earlier this year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the discrimination suit on behalf of the former employees, according to the […]
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An Oregon county settled a lawsuit with a diversity specialist who alleged he was fired after complaining about an officer using the N-word during a training session.
CVS has fired a pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription of a transgender woman seeking hormone medication and has apologized for the incident. Hilde Hall, the transgender woman, detailed her encounter with the pharmacist in a blog post published on the ACLU of Arizona‘s website Thursday. She claims the pharmacist loudly questioned her in front of other customers […]
The Clayton police department issued an apology after 10 Washington University students were falsely accused of not paying their bill at an IHOP restaurant on July 7,2018. All of the students were black and incoming freshmen. They were leaving the IHOP when they were stopped by police, school officials reports News 4. Clayton police officers then […]
Jaisaan Lovett graduated from University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men as the school’s first black valedictorian. According to Lovett, he was never actually asked to give a graduation speech but since past valedictorians had given speeches, he assumed that he would be giving one as well. When he asked to speek, the school’s principal, […]
