Discrimination

2020 Campaign 08/20/20, 02:15

A popular civil rights attorney and talk radio host warned the Democratic Party would continue to incite racial tension, and said that the only way to reach a peaceful resolution is to vote President Trump back into office. Leo Terrell believes the Democrats are exacerbating civil unrest, which has spread across ...

2020 Campaign 08/20/20, 02:02

An auto parts maker suffered sharemarket backlash after an employee exposed inequities in a company policy that appeared to prohibit free speech on the election and encourage violence against police. The value of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. shares dropped by nearly 6.3 percent after allegations surfaced that the business discriminates ...

U.S. 08/14/20, 13:18

A Justice Department investigation found that Yale University illegally discriminates against white and Asian American applicants in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act while receiving millions of taxpayer dollars, the Daily Caller reported. A two-year investigation concluded that Yale violated Title VI, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ...

U.S. 01/22/20, 05:32

A Texas teen has been suspended and won't be allowed to walk at graduation in three months unless he cuts his dreadlocks. Deandre Arnold and his family on Monday, Jan. 20, took the case to the Barbers Hill ISD school board. "There is no dress code policy that prohibits any cornrow or ...

U.S. 11/28/19, 14:00

A university professor filed a lawsuit denouncing that academic authorities denied her a promotion because she has worked in the government of President Donald Trump. Whitney Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University's School of Human Sciences. In the suit, she ...

U.S. 11/11/19, 15:10

A Florida state high school rejected the creation of a pro-life student organization because it was too "political" and "controversial," while accepting animal rights groups, denounced the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). In August, Gabrielle Gabbard, a student at Gulf Coast High School, after applying for recognition of the pro-life ...

U.S. 10/03/19, 16:02

Robert De Niro has found himself in a real-life court drama, trading dueling lawsuits with his former assistant after their decade-long working relationship went dreadfully sour. He's accusing her of misappropriating money. She says he subjected her to sexist and harassing comments. Chase Robinson sued the 76-year-old De Niro Thursday in Manhattan ...

U.S. 08/12/19, 19:27

A former North Carolina deputy is suing the Lee County’s Sheriff Office for religious discrimination after he was fired for refusing to train a new female officer. Manuel Torres, 51, started working for the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on October 2012. A few years later, he was ordered to train a ...

U.S. 08/09/19, 05:36

A woman confronted a U.S. Air Force officer outside of a Starbucks store, told her she “shouldn’t be speaking Spanish” and that it was “distasteful” to do so in her uniform. Xiara Mercado, an airman first class stationed at Pearl Harbor, said she was speaking Spanish while she was on the ...

Politics 06/01/19, 11:08

Taylor Swift says she's kicking off Pride Month by asking Tennessee's Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander to protect LGBTQ rights and support the Equality Act. The pop star, who lives in Tennessee, posted a letter on social media early Saturday that she supported the House's recent passage of the Equality Act, ...

U.S. 05/29/19, 19:17

Settlement with El Expreso Bus Co. of Houston is sixth under DOJ's Protecting US Workers Initiative, which investigates and penalizes employers that discriminate against qualified US employees in favor of foreign guest workers

Politics 05/24/19, 09:44

The Trump administration proposed Friday to roll back Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people in health care. The Health and Human Services Department released a proposed regulation that in effect says "gender identity" is not protected under federal laws that prohibit discrimination in health care. It is part of a backdrop of ...

U.S. 05/23/19, 10:03

Are older workers being discriminated against on the job? The answer appears to depend on the age of the person asked.About half of Americans think there's age discrimination in the workplace, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.But there's a split by age. The ...

2020 Campaign 05/20/19, 05:03

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is unveiling a pay equity proposal that aims to close the gender pay gap by holding corporations accountable when men are paid more than women. Harris's plan would require companies to disclose pay policies while applying for a mandatory Equal Pay Certification from the Equal Employment ...

U.S. 05/17/19, 00:11

It was the dress blue uniforms that drew John Thompson to join the U.S. Marines, where black men were not welcome, so he could defend a country that denied him the rights he wanted to fight for."I said, 'Wow, that's a real pretty uniform,'" recalls Thompson, now 94.It took President ...

U.S. 05/15/19, 06:50

North Carolina's most infamous political story lines of recent years are merging into a congressional race this summer that pits the architect of the state's "bathroom bill" against a Democrat who was granted an electoral do-over after evidence of ballot fraud tainted his prior opponent's campaign. State Sen. Dan Bishop topped ...

U.S. 05/14/19, 19:58

The Latest on a Republican primary election for a still-vacant North Carolina congressional seat (all times local):8:50 p.m.Republicans in North Carolina have chosen state Sen. Dan Bishop as their party's nominee in a special congressional election ordered after a ballot fraud scandal marred last year's race.Voters on Tuesday selected Bishop ...

Sports 05/13/19, 06:51

The French soccer league has set up an action plan to tackle homophobia in its stadiums, a system that will pave the way for judicial sanctions against abusive fans.Often heard at French league matches, homophobic chants have been tolerated for a long time by many club officials, and soccer authorities ...

Africa 05/12/19, 10:37

South Africa's president is vowing to purge his party of "bad and deviant tendencies" as he prepares to appoint a new Cabinet following a victory in national elections.The 57% share of the vote was the worst-ever election showing for the African National Congress, which has ruled since the apartheid system ...

Africa 05/08/19, 00:12

South Africans have started voting in presidential and parliamentary elections amid issues of corruption and unemployment.Wednesday's vote comes 25 years after the end of apartheid, but despite the demise of the system of racial discrimination the country remains divided by economic inequality .The party of Nelson Mandela that has been ...