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| Aug 11, 2026 | Researchers, advocates rail against government’s efforts to end workforce data collection | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CLAIRE SAVAGE and ALEXANDRA OLSON
Civil rights groups and researchers at a public hearing Tuesday called on a federal agency to continue its annual collection of workplace demographic data, argu... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | DeSantis-backed ‘Stop WOKE’ law meets appeals court block, teeing up possible Supreme Court fight | A divided federal appeals court in Florida ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act” restrictions on public college instruction violate the First Amendment.
Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee, wrote that Florida’s theory would give th... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Birthright Citizenship Survives 6-3: Kavanaugh Opens a Statutory Path for Congress | By Jerry Owens
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| Jun 3, 2026 | Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MARK SHERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the redis... |
| May 11, 2026 | Supreme Court clears way for Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 Black congressional districts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DAVID A. LIEB, KIM CHANDLER and MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional di... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Protections of the Voting Rights Act are under threat as the law marks its 60th anniversary | Voting rights experts say those cases will largely determine whether a landmark law passed during a turbulent era decades ago will have future anniversaries to mark.
“We’re at a critical juncture right now,” said Demetria McCain, director o... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | US Supreme Court eases path for 'reverse' discrimination claims in workplace cases | WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday (Jun 5) made it easier for people from majority backgrounds, such as white or heterosexual individuals, to pursue workplace discrimination claims, in a unanimous ruling that revived an Ohio woman... |
| May 1, 2025 | The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall | The small Louisiana district has a long-running integration case
The Trump administration called the Plaquemines case an example of administrative neglect. The district in the Mississippi River Delta Basin in southeast Louisiana was found t... |
| Jan 28, 2025 | National Politics | Voting rights groups are concerned about priorities shifting under Trump’s Justice Department | “Pam Bondi has proved herself loyal to Donald Trump and wealthy special interests — and not the American people,” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said in a Jan. 15 statement. “The American people deserve an attorney general who will protect their... |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Who is Don Peebles? Early Life and Career | Share
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Don Peebles, born R. Donahue Peebles, is a highly influential American real estate developer, author, and philanthropist. As the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Peebles Corporation, Peebles is widely recogniz... |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election | The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to account for population shifts reflected in the 2020 Census. But the changes effectively maintained the status quo of five Republican-leaning majority white... |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Newbern, Alabama, election debacle highlights bigger, fundamental issues | Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part 1 here.
Loretta, a lifelong resident of Newbern, Alabama, likes to walk in the morning.
“It’s already getting hot,” she said as she finished up her daily ritual. It was ... |
| Mar 2, 2024 | Tour of Florida historic sites illuminates white supremacy in the legal system | Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised.
Two rented buses recently ferried 27 social justice advocates along U.S. Route 90 in Baker County, Florida, past long, empty miles of san... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Promising Florida voting rights bill honors little-known civil rights martyrs | Broken glass and scattered pieces of wood clamored across the porch of the white clapboard house tucked into the 6-acre orange grove in Mims, Florida. When the fog and dust lifted, the house’s columns stood off-kilter and the contents of th... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | The power of community: Honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. | As a little girl growing up in Lincoln, Alabama, I recognized that things were very different in rural communities than they were in nearby cities. Our access to health care was extremely limited. The community knew what problems existed, j... |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians | I should be irate and despondent about the Supreme Court’s scrapping of affirmative action in admissions. It’s several steps backward.
And yet, I have mixed emotions about the practice, informed by my own experiences with affirmative action... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | San Francisco mom launches new Asian American doll | A San Francisco mother is gearing up to launch a new Asian American doll named Jilly in a bid to fill a gap on toy shelves.
Why it matters: Though U.S. doll lines have released some Asian American models, many still use white dolls' mo... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Why Companies Need To Defend Their Diversity Policies | Diversity and Inclusion policies at Fortune 500 are under attack following the latest Supreme Court ... [+] decision on affirmative action.getty |
| Jul 7, 2023 | How the Supreme Court blocked Alabama’s effort to dilute Black voting power | The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision ordering the state of Alabama to draw a new congressional voting map reaffirms the essential role of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in ensuring that communities of color have the opportunity to be fai... |
| May 26, 2023 | Civil Rights Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Use Executive Authority to Protect Immigrant Families and Workers | WASHINGTON — Today, as first reported by The Hill, a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on President Joe Biden to take all actions within his authority to protect undocumented... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Massachusetts became the 18th state to outlaw Black hair discrimination. Here's the tangled history of the CROWN Act. | Voices of Color Massachusetts became the 18th state to outlaw Black hair discrimination. Here's the tangled history of the CROWN Act.
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| Feb 17, 2022 | Goidel & Siegel Honors Black History Month by Donating to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. | New York City Personal Injury Lawyers Honor Black History Month “At Goidel and Siegel, we recognize that some fights are bigger than the ones we handle at our personal injury law firm,” said Jonathan M. Goidel, co-founder of Goidel & Si... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Your guide to the Republican-fueled culture wars as the 2022 midterm election campaigns kick into high gear | A supporter of schools reopening speaks at the Hillsborough County Public Schools school board meeting on August 6, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Culture wars are playing a dominant role in the 2022 election cy... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | A Black job applicant's lawsuit is the first to allege hair discrimination under the CROWN Act | A Black job applicant's lawsuit alleging hair discrimination is the first to evoke the CROWN Act.
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| Aug 30, 2021 | Financial Security For Black Business Owners: A Conversation With Black Economic Alliance Executive Director David Clunie | Black Economic Alliance (BEA) Executive Director David ClunieBlack Economic Alliance (BEA) |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Shein's secrets to achieve success in ecommerce and perhaps to unseat Inditex | August 18, 2021 15+ min read
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| Jul 6, 2021 | ‘1619 Project’ creator Nikole Hannah-Jones turns down tenure at UNC to join Howard University’s faculty with Ta-Nehisi Coates | The New York Times magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks at the 137th Commencement of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 16, 2021. Marcus Ingram/Getty Images
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Death Row-USA: A history of the death penalty in America | There has been a bloodbath in the United States in the past few months.
From 2003 to 2020, there had been no federal executions, and only four going all the way back to my birth in 1959. In the 230 years since records began in 1790, we had ... |
| Dec 26, 2020 | Reviewing 2020: Play On | Ziggy Marley performs on CBS' special PLAY ON: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make ChangeCourtesy of CBS Play On |
| Nov 13, 2020 | UPS has decided to stop policing how its workers wear their hair | UPS drivers have fewer rules on how they can where their hair. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
UPS will now allow its delivery drivers to wear Afros, braids, and facial hair.
The shipping company previously held strict grooming standards for i... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Defining Voter Intimidation: Six Battleground States | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Jun 6, 2020 | What Is Qualified Immunity, and What Does It Have to Do With Police Reform? | The protests ignited by the killing of George Floyd have put a spotlight on the legal doctrine of qualified immunity. While qualified immunity is not at issue in the prosecution of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and the thr... |
| Jun 6, 2020 | Startups Weekly: The George Floyd protests come home to the tech industry | The tech industry has generally wished that structural discrimination would go away, while pretending that it already has. But technology can be used by anyone for anything. And so, the world has watched video after video of police brutalit... |
| Jun 5, 2020 | A message from the Equity crew | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week, however, the Equity crew (Danny, Natasha, Chris, and Alex) agreed it felt silly to drum up false en... |
| May 19, 2020 | A New “New Deal” For Education: Top 10 Policy Moves For States In The COVID 2.0 Era | KRANJ, SLOVENIA - 2020/05/18: A primary school teacher wearing a face mask as preventive measure ... [+] teaches a first year class that has been reduced in number of pupils for safety. Pupils of first three years of primary schools as well... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | The rise and fall — and rise again — of Abercrombie & Fitch | Abercrombie & Fitch. Reuters
Founded as a store for outdoor gear, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. pivoted into fashion apparel during the 1900s.
Under former CEO Mike Jeffries, the brand was modernized and became popular with teens in the 1... |
| GOP leaders used Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearing to rebuke critical race theory. Scholars say it's a disgraceful attempt to disqualify her. | More: Ketanji Brown Jackson senate confirmation hearing Diversity Critical Race Theory
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| Where From Here? Affirmative Action and Other Decisions Coming Out of the 1st Term of 2023 | June’s Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action in higher education already has raised a host of questions about the future of corporate DEI programs. Although the law governing the use of race in employment decision making d... |
| Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s Supreme Court pick? | When US President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States’ highest court, he praised her “exceptional credentials, unimpeachable character, and an unwavering dedication to the rule of law”.
Biden’s pick was also histo... |
| Marxism, mandates, and critical race theory: Your guide to the Republican-fueled culture wars as the 2022 midterm election campaigns kick into high gear | A supporter of schools reopening speaks at the Hillsborough County Public Schools school board meeting on August 6, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images
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| Trump is endorsing candidates he hopes would interfere with election results and help him win in 2024. Here are 7 people he's backing across the country. | Clockwise from top left: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick, US Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia. Photos by: Bob Christie/ AP; AP Photo/Meg Kinnard; House Television via A... |
| Election officials risk criminal charges under 31 new GOP-imposed penalties | Second in a two-part series. See part one here.
Since the 2020 election, Iowa has enacted one new felony and two new misdemeanor offenses targeting election officials.
The state’s omnibus election law, passed in 2021, criminalizes election ... |
| ‘I feel like I was meant to do this’: Asian American activists reflect on their work in the last year | Manjusha Kulkarni describes the March 16 Atlanta-area shooting of eight people, including the killing of six Asian women, as “beyond our worst nightmares.”
Kulkarni, 51, is South Asian American and executive director of the Asian Pacific Po... |