Racial Discrimination Cases
July 3rd, 2014
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Discrimination Cases, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Segregating schools by race still seems to be a major issue in many towns and cities across America. Are we going backward, sixty years after Brown vs. Board of Education determined that segregated schools by race do not promote or achieve equal educational opportunity?
Now, yet again, a federal judge is ordering mediation to resolve a dispute over racial segregation in Huntsville, Alabama city...
June 20th, 2014
Written by The Associated Press in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
GE Capital Retail Bank discriminated against Hispanics and has agreed to pay $169 million to settle a lawsuit. The lawsuit accused the bank of discriminating against Hispanic credit card customers, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The Justice Department called it the largest government credit-card discrimination settlement ever. The department joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
June 11th, 2014
Written by Brett Barrouquere in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
UPS is being sued for racial discrimination against black employees in the United States and abroad. The most recent lawsuit has been filed in a Circuit Court in Lexington, Kentucky.
A group of eight current and former employees of United Parcel Service in Kentucky have sued the company saying they faced racial discrimination, poor treatment based on race and retaliation after they complained....
May 28th, 2014
Written by The Associated Press in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
A Mississippi Judge is charged with slapping a black man and using racial slurs as the man was seeking employment at a Flea Market.
Madison County Justice Court judge faces accusations that he struck a mentally disabled man and used racial slurs while working as a security guard at an event in Canton.
The family of the 20-year-old African-American man, Eric Rivers, has filed a police complaint...
May 14th, 2014
Written by The Associated Press in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
Brown vs. the Board of Education is being revisited sixty years after the court ruled that segregated schools violate the equality provision which is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. It is 2014, where is America today in guaranteeing equal protection that ensures that all children should be able to attend quality integrated public schools?
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court...
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