Tag: Discrimination
Biden moving to improve legal services for poor, minorities
DETROIT — President Joe Biden plans to take executive action Tuesday to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal...
Tennessee to mandate bathroom signs about transgender use
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee will become the first state in the United States to require businesses and government facilities open to the public to...
Bill Gates’ leadership roles stay intact despite allegations
SEATTLE — Despite damaging allegations suggesting Bill Gates pursued women who worked for him, don't expect changes to his roles at the two iconic...
Biden reverses Trump changes to bank antidiscrimination law
NEW YORK — The Biden administration announced Tuesday it would repeal the changes made by the Trump administration to an important law made to...
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Romer has died at 77
NEW ORLEANS — Buddy Roemer, a Harvard-educated reform-minded politician whose one tumultuous term as Louisana’s governor was marked by bruising political battles over taxes,...
Tennessee gov signs transgender ‘bathroom bill’ for schools
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed legislation that puts public schools and their districts at risk of losing civil lawsuits if...
Arizona sheriff’s immigration patrols to cost public $200M
PHOENIX — The costs to taxpayers from a racial profiling lawsuit stemming from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols in metro Phoenix a decade...
UK police probe video of antisemitic abuse hurled from cars
LONDON — British police were investigating videos posted on social media Sunday that appeared to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy...
Fauci says pandemic exposed ‘undeniable effects of racism’
ATLANTA — The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States said Sunday that “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to...
‘Foot soldiers’ of Birmingham to BLM: ‘Keep on keeping on’
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail...
