EEOC

Here’s a legal ruling that looks to have an immediate and negative impact on a lot of folks … Black and non-Black, for that matter. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that banning employees from wearing their hair in dreadlocks is not a form of racial discrimination. The legal ruling grew out […]

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is mourning the loss of its former chair, Jacqueline Berrien. Ms. Berrien passed last Monday, with President Barack Obama and former colleagues praising the late leader for her invaluable contributions to civil and employment rights. Berrien’s career began when she clerked for Alabama’s first federally-appointed Black judge, U.W. Clemon. […]

Sometimes workplace discrimination can cost taxpayers. Case in point: the recent $68,000 award from a discrimination claim by a black social worker against the Hampton,…