News From A Colorful Perspective
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement agreement with Arizona-based company Upper Crust Bakery over a suit involving immigration status discrimination. Upper Crust Bakery, which provides baked goods for companies like Starbucks, Cotsco and Kroger’s discriminated against certain employees by requiring them to provide specific immigration documents to…
White supremacist gangs in prison continue to go unchecked. The two Black victims of a stabbing by a white supremacist at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville have filed a lawsuit against officers and prison staff for allowing the attack to occur. Greg Reinke attacked several of his Black fellow…
The bipartisan bill calls for the DOJ to put resources toward the safety of millions of women. Eighty-four percent of indigenous women experience violence in their lifetime and, in some tribal communities, women are murdered at 10 times the national average. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and…
U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee of California said in her decision Monday not to amend Flores v. Reno and that “absolutely nothing” prevents President Trump from reconsidering their current blanket policy of family detention. And, Tuesday is the deadline for the administration to reunite children under five with families…
The Trump administration plans to toss an Obama-era guideline that encourages colleges and universities to consider race as a way of promoting diversity. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reversing 2011 and 2016 legal guidelines set during the Obama administration to “avoid racial isolation” as administration officials contend the guidelines…
The Inspector General’s review of the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals Service showed low percentages of female representation in leadership and promotions, underreporting of discrimination and harassment due to fear of retaliation and men who thought gender equity was “just fine.” The female criminal investigator population represented only 16…
The Donald Trump presidency is great for business if you own a private prison. The two largest companies in the industry enjoyed a rise of a third of their stock in the month following the election. Nearly 18 months into his presidency Trump is making companies like CoreCivic and the…
New York Congressman and former undocumented immigrant Rep. Adriano Espaillat, in his recent commentary on CNN, stated that President Donald Trump goes after the Dreamers and immigrants every time he feels Robert Mueller’s heat, Stormy Daniels’ heat or heat from his base. U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and…
(UPDATE: Monday, May 9, 3:53 p.m.) The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina hours after Gov. Pat McCrory filed a lawsuit against the DOJ. The DOJ’s lawsuit states that North Carolina’s “bathroom bill,” House Bill 2, violates Title VII of the Civil Rights…
North Carolina’s new transgender bathroom law violates the Civil Rights Act, the Department of Justice said in a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday. According to the letter (posted by WRAL), McCrory and the state of North Carolina are “engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender…
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