Racial Discrimination

A Washington state man has appealed a court ruling that prohibited a racist covenant attached to his house deed to be removed from public records.

Shannon Phillips claims company fired her to "convince the community that it had properly responded" to outcry.

The leaked deposition of Founder's general manager showed his reluctance to identify an ex-employee as black, as well as Barack Obama, Michael Jordan and former Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick because he'd "never met them."

As of 2017, more than 80 percent of U.S. marijuana business owners and founders were white. Local governments are doing their part to try and change that.

The Lockheed Martin company, Sikorsky, unveiled a new military helicopter just days after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against them.

Black and Latino drivers were also more than three times more likely to be removed from the vehicle, twice as likely to be handcuffed and faced higher odds of arrest than their white counterparts.

The NAACP has asked Comcast to leave the Civil Rights Act alone in Byron Allen's racial discrimination lawsuit.

"Seriously. In other words, no foreign-born people," the candidate said. She added that "in the past, we've experienced it's better to have, simply, American-born — no foreigners, no."

Rev. Jacek Kowal claimed his dog, a German Shepherd, once had a "bad experience with a stranger who happened to be African American." He has now been accused of discrimination.

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, paving the way for less oversight over local administration of elections.

An elementary school principal in Ann Arbor, Michigan is suing her district to get reinstated in the school she argues she was forced out of because she's white.

"What I did was took a knee against racial discrimination, which is basically when people are mean to other people of different colors," Liam Holmes said.

Teacher Andrea Bryan is suing the Commack School District in New York State over years of alleged racial discrimination and harassment from some of her colleagues and students.

"Southwest is quick to fire blacks while whites are given lesser discipline," Jamel Parker said in his lawsuit against Southwest.

The City of Hastings said the police officer's lawsuit was without "merit" and claimed he also joked about his DNA results, but it settled anyway.

"I am deeply disturbed by these allegations."

The passengers were traveling from Delhi to JFK Airport on January 7, but their connecting flight was canceled during a stopover in Moscow.

South Africa was "offended" after an Australian minister said the white Afrikaner population was "persecuted" and in need of a "civilized country."

"It perpetuates a racial stereotype that African Americans are thieves."

About six in 10 black people working in STEM fields say they have experienced some form of racial discrimination at work.

The Republican-led state legislature has indicated it will challenge the ruling at the Supreme Court.

One woman says she was told: "I hope you choke to death and answer my fucking question first."

It is an indisputable fact that to lock up even more of our nation's citizenry for even greater amounts of time won't make us safer, but it will directly devastate children, families, and communities.

At least 16 current and former employees are suing the network over racial discrimination.

Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos said that evidence "establishes that a discriminatory purpose was at least one of the substantial or motivating factors behind passage" of the measure.

Seventy percent of Americans thought race relations would improve under Barack Obama. They did not.

In the 1920s, Congress imposed a quota to give preference to immigrants from "white" countries.

There is a swelling contingent of white men who lament that life isn't as good as it was in 1950 and who tend to blame people of color and immigrants.

A Department of Education Office for Civil Rights report says the number of complaints related to racism, sexual assault and other discrimination has almost doubled since 2005.

A report by the Trades Union Congress shows the gap is present at all levels of education.