Damon (pictured right) and David Harvey (pictured left), two cousins, went into a Buy Buy Baby retail store in Garden City, N.Y., to purchase some big-ticket…
An African American worker at a Hooters in Baltimore said she was fired from her job because she put blonde highlights in her hair. Farryn Johnson told Baltimore’s CBS News affiliate that she was let go from her job as a waitress at Hooters due to ‘”improper image” after the 25-year-old refused to remove blonde […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Reggie Jackson insists in his new autobiography that he never disparaged Thurman Munson in an attention-grabbing Sport magazine report 36 years ago, a claim the author immediately denied. Jackson also criticizes Billy Martin, praises George Steinbrenner and portrays racial discrimination he faced throughout his career. Robert Ward’s story in the June […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for hundreds of black financial advisers have reached a $160 million settlement in a lawsuit accusing Wall Street brokerage giant Merrill Lynch of racial discrimination, a plaintiffs’ attorney said Wednesday. If approved by a federal judge in Chicago as expected, the payout by Merrill Lynch to around 1,200 plaintiffs would be […]
