Ten years ago in June, “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams accepted a Humanitarian Award from the BET cable network. He held it aloft, then leaned not just into the microphone, but into a kind of racial homily prosecuting America’s caste system and binding the wounds of its casualties “If you have a critique for the […]
DAYTON — Few nonresidents of nursing homes know more about what they’re like than Dorothy Valentine. For decades, she worked in them, caring for “her” residents. Despite the hard work, weird hours, and low pay, it was her favorite job, she said. “I loved my residents,” Valentine said. “I always spoiled them. I almost got […]
(Legal Newsline) – Another Philadelphia diversity, equity and inclusion officer has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city, alleging she was retaliated against for “opposing and reporting discrimination and harassment.”
With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday. They face being forced to return to a nation that the International Rescue Committee says is “in the grip of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis.” Right now, […]
The only fair-housing organization in North Dakota faces a grim outlook with the delay of a major federal grant. The Grand Forks-based High Plains Fair Housing Center has been in a funding gap for two months. The center, which has one part-time and seven full-time employees, will likely furlough four of its staff on July […]
Civil rights complaints filed in Virginia and other states allege that Greystar, a national apartment management company, has violated fair housing laws by rejecting prospective tenants that use housing vouchers to help pay their rent. An investigation by nonprofit watchdog Housing Rights Initiative found over 100 instances where properties managed by Greystar in Virginia, Maryland, […]
(Legal Newsline) - A Pennsylvania mental health facility faces a discrimination lawsuit that accuses it of “deadnaming” an employee who identified as non-binary.
Tennessee marked four years under a near-total abortion ban with the June 24 anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson, under which the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state’s law to ban abortions to take effect. Tennessee Republicans claimed Dobbs as a major victory. But they won’t acknowledge the growing body of evidence suggesting abortion bans contribute […]
One of the first Black state legislators in Colorado passed a civil rights law in 1895 that said public accommodations could not ban people of color. Joseph Stuart, the second Black lawyer to practice in Colorado and the second Black member of the Colorado Legislature, led a bill the same year voters first elected him […]
A federal judge sitting in Cincinnati, Ohio on Friday ruled that federal authorities are making illegal immigration arrests. Then she dismissed a case seeking to stop the practice. U.S. District Judge Sarah D. Morrison, a 2018 Trump appointee, ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had made many arrests in Ohio that “deeply trouble the […]
