Business Involvement in Racial Justice
Ex-Jaguars social media director sues team, claims racial discrimination, retaliation
News4JAX
A former Jacksonville Jaguars executive has filed a federal lawsuit against the NFL franchise, claiming he was racially discriminated against, ..
ACLU Files Civil Rights Complaint Challenging Discriminatory Hiring Products
ACLU of Northern California
SACRAMENTO–Today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Northern California filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department …
America First Legal Sues Seattle Government Contractor for Race Discrimination and …
America First Legal
… Black, Indigenous, or People of Color,” which expressly excluded her and other white employees. … people are guilty of white supremacy.
Educational/Historical Memory
Missouri sued over alleged decades of underfunding at historically Black university
NBC News
… it violated the U.S. Constitution and federal civil rights law by systematically underfunding the historically Black university for decades.
The Supreme Court Should Close the Racial-Proxy Loophole
National Review
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote an admonition: “What cannot be done directly, cannot be done indirectly.” Despite that warning, dozens of schools …
Attorney General Knudsen asks SCOTUS to hear case over discriminatory DEI training
Montana Department of Justice
… people to justify the oppression of people of color, that white supremacy is an ever-present feature of daily life…, and that Caucasians who deny …
Black Student Sues Lakewood Charter School Over Racial Harassment
Yellow Scene
The lawsuit alleges months of racial peer-on-peer harassment by white classmates, culminating in racist and violently threatening graffiti that …
5 things civil rights data says about public schools – NPR
NPR
The Civil Rights Data Collection is the most comprehensive information about how the nation’s students are treated at school
Black Education Research Center to Aid NYC Policy Recommendations
Teachers College – Columbia University
In a study funded by the NYC Commission on Racial Equity, BERC researchers will examine the local, enduring effects of racial injustice and offer …
Racial Justice/Equality
EEOC action targets WashU after DEI training complaint
Campus Reform
Washington University employee Amega Thaier alleges that the university required her to identify as ‘BIPOC’ or ‘White’ before placing her alone in ..
NH Supreme Court Rules “Disproportionality” of Death Penalty for Only Man on Death Row
ACLU
No state has executed a person previously condemned to die under a since-repealed statute – but today’s decision is not the last word
CPD Brass Inconsistently Disciplined Officers for Using Racial Slurs
WTTW News
The majority of the officers found to have used racial slurs were suspended for less than a month, according to Chicago’s watchdog.
University of Utah investigating racially motivated attack on students
ABC4 Utah
The occupants of the vehicle reportedly yelled anti-Asian and other racial slurs at one of the students. As the two students continued, the car …
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity development built to repair exclusion
Insight News
… Black, Indigenous people of color. And then about 20% foundational Black. And that’s self-identified.” She said the organization is “really ..
Not Just a Castle in the Sky: a Legal Remedy for Race-based Takings in Virginia
Race, Racism and the Law
Examines Not Just a Castle in the Sky: a Legal Remedy for Race-based Takings in Virginia and its implications for racial justice, law, policy,…
Baltimore pastor to walk 40 miles through Maine calling for reparations
The Portland Press Herald
Turner has been completing 40-mile walks for reparations around the U.S. and will walk from Brunswick to Augusta on Tuesday.
“Wells Fargo Faces Regulator Probe Over Efforts to Boost Black Homeownership”
HUD
It does not say: discriminate, so long as the discrimination is called a ‘special purpose credit program’ and justified as advancing ‘racial equity in
Federal Government Challenges to Racial Justice
Reshaped civil rights mission at Justice Department transforms its work, workforce
NPR
When Harmeet Dhillon took over as the new chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division last April, the conservative attorney vowed to .
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