O’Ryan Johnson and Matt Stout, THE BOSTON HERALD BOSTON (The Boston Herald) — The Boston Police Department has upheld complaints against black officers and punished...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When teachers harbor subconscious racial bias, they are far more likely to discipline White students less...
Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR CHARLOTTE, N.C. (NPR.com)—North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has directed his Department of Consumer Affairs to look into reports that some...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department sheds a brighter light on...
Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—Just days after a scathing report accused police in Ferguson, Mo of over-enforcement that is racially discriminatory and...
Jeremy Kohler, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)— The mayor of this embattled city said Friday that it would take some time to determine...
Brittney Cooper, SALON (Salon.com)—Ruth Bader Ginsburg has emerged as the liberal hero of a hopelessly right-wing Supreme Court, a ram in the bush for those...
WASHINGTON (Huffington Post)—Dozens of African-American police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, are facing demotions to the positions they held over a decade ago in response to...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former soap opera actress Victoria Rowell has sued CBS and producers, saying they have kept her off the air as...
Dave Jamieson, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—A group of former McDonald’s workers from Virginia are suing their stores for racial discrimination and sexual harassment — and...
RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — After a 2007 report showed that Iowa had the nation’s highest disparity for sending blacks to...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist One of my mentors asked me why I was so quiet and not making my voice heard in the streets...
Dave Boyer, THE WASHINGTON TIMES WASHINGTON (The Washington Times)—Before flying off to Hawaii for a two-week vacation, President Obama said Friday that most blacks understand...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist An African American friend of mine keeps asking, in utter amazement, how it is not obvious that there was...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said as several police officers...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist From nearly the moment he was attacked by a New York City police officer July 18, the world has,...
Gillian Mohney, ABC NEWS (ABC News)—Two hashtags with stories of alleged racial bias by police have gone viral in the wake of a decision by...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $380 million in government dollars left over from a federal discrimination settlement with American Indians is...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Ferguson is too important to be treated on the margins. It is too important to lead the news one...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of a Black teen being killed in Ferguson, Mo., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was...
JOE MANDAK, Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three minority women who worked at a county emergency call center in Pittsburgh have filed discrimination lawsuits, with one...
GOSIA WOZNIACKA, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon expanded its investigation into discrimination at the Portland truck-making plant of German automotive giant Daimler AG after...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Exposure to racial discrimination may explain why members of some minority groups disproportionately suffer from...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Twenty years after signing the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the...
Greg B. Smith, NY DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (New York Daily News)—Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to settle allegations that the upscale retailer deliberately targeted...
