An exhaustive investigation into Kansas’s largest school district found it disciplined Black and disabled students more frequently and harshly than their white counterparts, the Justice Department said Tuesday, announcing a settlement agreement with the district. The Justice Department investigated Wichita Public Schools and “uncovered discriminatory treatment of Black students in the administration of discipline at […]
Deere and Co., the parent company of the John Deere brand, will pay $1.1 million in back wages to Black and Hispanic job applicants who alleged the company engaged in racial discrimination in hiring. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs settled with Deere and Co. to pay back wages and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory. The ruling against the Atlanta-based Fearless Fund is another victory for conservative groups waging […]
News that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program got me thinking about the many attempts to redress the wrongs of systemic racism through monetary compensation. Americans have a long tradition of offering reparations for slavery, only to see them clawed back. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the […]
A brewery promoting its annual peanut butter beer week came under fire for an item on its menu: an ale called Epi Pen. Playalinda Brewing Company was hit with a wave of backlash when it began marketing for peanut butter beer week, which will run March 29 through April 7. At the top of its […]
A federal court will allow South Carolina Republicans to use their congressional map for the 2024 election, it said on Thursday, despite an earlier finding that the same plan discriminates against Black voters. The decision is a big win for Republicans, who were aided by the US supreme court’s slow action on the case. Related: […]
A pho restaurant in Portland, Oregon, has shuttered due to anonymous odor complaints, sparking a firestorm of backlash against the city’s smell codes, which residents and lawmakers slammed as potentially discriminatory. After repeated anonymous odor complaints filed to the city and the threat of a hefty fine, Pho Gabo’s northeast Portland location closed its doors […]
Mary Poppins’ age rating has been raised from U to PG by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) almost 60 years after its release. The age rating was changed because of “discriminatory language,” the BBFC said. The 1964 film, starring Dame Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, uses the colonial term Hottentots, a derogatory […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Employees of the Henderson Police Department regularly made “intentional, discriminatory” comments aimed at one of its former black chiefs, documents obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators reveal. In affidavits filed in federal court Friday, one current and one former HPD officer claims they heard racist, derogatory remarks made at and […]