Discrimination

Are All Blacks Prejudiced Against All Gays? Beyond the Static View of Race, Sexual Orientation and Otherness

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Racism, Stop and Frisk, Discrimination, John Derbyshire, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, North Carolina, Politics News

I would not wish to be called homophobic just because quite of lot of individuals who happen to be white make anti-gay remarks. Problems arise when our only understanding and interactions with specific people result in our treating them as part of a group and not as individuals.

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Do You Think It's Fair...

Brad Lander | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Credit, Predatory Lending, Responsible Banking Act, Brooklyn, Credit Rating Agencies, Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, New York City, New York City Council Progressive Caucus, Video, New York News

Many employers in New York City and across the country routinely use credit reports to discriminate against job applicants with poor credit histories. This puts people in a cruel Catch-22.

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Some Personal Thoughts on President Obama's Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, President Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians, Discrimination, Prejudice, Same-Sex Marriage, Osama Bin Laden, Gay Children, Obama Gay Marriage, President Obama, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Gay Voices News

I personally haven't "just concluded" that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. I concluded this a very long time ago, when the most loved person in the world to my wife and myself, our young son, told us that he was gay.

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Looking Different And Differently Looking

Simran Jeet Singh | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Sikhism, Sikh Turbans, Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Religious Tolerance, Sikhs, Religion News

Like too many others, I've been discriminated against because of my unique appearance. While I wouldn't wish it on anyone else, being the target of discrimination has helped open my eyes to various types of inequalities in our world.

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WATCH: 'Dateline' Parents Say 'My Kid Would Never...Discriminate'

Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: My Kid Would Never Do That, Stereotypes, Kids and Discrimination, Natalie Morales, Dateline NBC, Dateline, Natalie Morales Dateline, Discrimination, Racial Stereotypes, Natalie Morales Child, Hidden Camera, Racial Discrimination, Video, Black Voices News

The stakes are high for a group of teenagers trying out for a fictional television quiz show called "Smart, Smarter, Smartest," and competitive situat...

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EEOC issues new Policy Guidance on the Consideration of Criminal Records in Employment Decisions

Glenn E. Martin | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Reentry, Jobs, Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Incarceration, Eeoc, Latino Voices News

The mass incarceration of minority communities, and the resulting mass reentry and lifetime collateral consequences have created the "perfect storm" to ensure that criminal record based employment discrimination serves as a surrogate for race-based discrimination.

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Discrimination Against LGBT Jurors Remains Legal

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Legal Discrimination, Video, Gay Rights, Lgbt Juror Discrimination, LGBT Discrimination, Bv-Politics, Jurors Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Equal Rights, Discrimination, Politics News

By Andy Birkey MINNEAPOLIS, M.N. -- “I believe that people who are either transsexuals or transvestites -- I don't know what the proper term ...

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The U.S.'s Unwelcoming Approach To Welcoming Foreigners

Philip Seib | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Discrimination, Lax, US Immigration and Customs, Public Diplomacy, Travel News

Presumably, the training of the men and women working at U.S. entry points includes instruction in the religions and cultures of the people they will encounter. In this case, at least, the training didn't work.

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Boy Scouts Board Member Steps Down In Support Of Dismissed Lesbian Den Mom

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Gay Rights, Gay Discrimination, Jennifer Tyrrell, Boy Scouts of America Gay Policy, Boy Scouts of America, Boy Scouts, Boy Scouts of America Gays, Homophobia, LGBT Rights, Discrimination, Slidepollajax, Video, Gay Voices News

Support for the Ohio mom who was dismissed as leader of her son's Boy Scout troop because she is a lesbian continues to grow. The Gay and Lesbian...

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Corporate Lobbyists Discriminate, Declare War on Disabled (Show This to Your Legislator)

Anne Stevenson | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Discrimination, Americans With Disabilities Act, Senator Bob Dutton, Senator Patrick Leahy, Politics News

Should disabled litigants be forced to elect between the loss of wealth and opportunities, or alternatively, going broke engaging in excessive litigation? Isn't that just another way of starving the little guy's interests out of court on account of their disability?

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Race Discrimination Suit Against AIG Says Boss Called Lawyer 'Fat Albert'

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Race-Discrimination, Aig, Civil Suit, Federal Court, Law Suit, Discrimination, American International Group, Eeoc, Aig Racial Discrimination, Business News

A former AIG lawyer is suing the insurance giant for discrimination, claiming colleagues and supervisors taunted him, mistreated him and ultimately fi...

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Man Denied Michigan High School Graduation Speaker Role For Being Gay

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Anti Gay, Anti Gay Discrimination, Discrimination, Gay Discrimination, Discrimination in Schools, School Discrimination, Gay Discrimination in Schools, Video, Education News

Dominic Sheahan-Stahl, a graduate of Sacred Heart Academy in Mount Pleasant, Mich., is speaking out after officials allegedly told his mother he would...

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Does the Holocaust Matter to Today's Kids?

Maggie Quale | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Bullying, Trayvon Martin, Genocide Prevention, Obama Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Obama, Discrimination, Anti-Gay Bullying, Holocaust Memorial Day, Slidepollajax, Culture News

Out of 30 students, only two recognized the word "Holocaust." But when talk turned to discrimination and bigotry, every single hand went up, each student desperate to recount his or her own tale of prejudice.

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Church Burns Credit Card Offers In Protest Of Predatory Lending

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, Debt, Video, Predatory Lending, Countrywide Financial, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Cnn, Payday Loans, Discrimination, Credit Card Debt, Credit Cards, Housing Crisis, Rev. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., Business News

Sometimes, more than incense and candles are burned at Church. Last Sunday, members of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in New Jersey ga...

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The Real War On Women

Foreign Policy | Mona Eltahawy | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Alifa Rifaat, Arab Spring, War on Women, Gender Discrimination, Middle East, Sexism, Discrimination, Global Gender Gap Report, World News

In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with he...

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Consumer Watchdog Eyes Discrimination By Lenders

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chief, Discrimination, Lending, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cfpb, Black Voices News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's consumer-finance watchdog says it is cracking down on lenders that discriminate against minorities and women....

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Watchdog To 'Stop Discrimination In Its Tracks'

Reuters | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Richard Cordray, Gender Discrimination, Discriminatory Lending, Consumer Watchdog, Reuters, Cfpb, Discrimination, Richard Cordray Cfpb, Cfpb Discriminatory Lending, Racial Discrimination, Money News

By Dave Clarke WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - The new U.S. consumer financial watchdog said on Wednesday it will aggressively pursue...

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Boy Scout Den Mother Forced To Resign Because She Is A Lesbian

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Gay Discrimination, Gay Rights, Jennifer Tyrrell Boy Scouts, Jennifer Tyrrell, Boy Scouts of America, Boy Scouts, LGBT Rights, Homophobia, Discrimination, Slidepollajax, Boy Scouts Den Mother, Anti-Gay Discrimination, Gay Voices News

A Boy Scouts den mother is speaking out after being ousted from her role because she is a lesbian. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (...

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Rights Have to Be Enforced Somehow

Joshua Shulman | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Eeoc, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Trial Lawyers, Equal Opportunity Employment, Lawyers, Employee Rights, New York Disability Law, Workers Rights, Politics News

We as a country have to decide what rights we want to enforce, and whether to enforce them with government agencies, or with private contractors. But whipsawing back and forth is unfair.

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LGBT Activists Criticize Obama, Gay Leaders, for Failure to Sign Executive Order Banning Discrimination

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Video, Gay Rights, President Barack Obama, LGBT Rights, Homophobia, Obama Gay Rights, Discrimination, Paul Yandura, Center for American Progress, Barack Obama, Anti-Gay Discrimination, Gay Voices News

In separate interviews, two prominent LGBT activists slammed President Obama for refusing to sign an Executive Order "at this time" barring federal co...

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Feds Launch Probe Of Wells Fargo Housing Practices

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Latino Home Buyers, Communities of Color, Wells Fargo, Black Home Buyers, Hud, Discrimination, Foreclosure, Housing Discrimination, Justice Department, Civil Rights Violations, Housing and Urban Development, Civil Rights, Business News

Wells Fargo & Co., the nation's largest mortgage lender, is facing the second of at least two federal probes into how it treats minority borrowers and...

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Report: Predominantly Latino and African American Neighborhoods Suffer A New Front of Discrimination

Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Latino Voices News, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure Minority Neighborhoods, Discrimination, Foreclosure, National Fair Housing Alliance, Latino Prosperity, Foreclosure Discrimination, Housing Crisis, Latino Voices News

Three years since a Wells Fargo Bank loan officer shared the details of how she and her colleagues targeted and directed prospective African American ...

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America's Public Schools: Still Unequal And Unjust

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Resources, Latino, Low-Minority, Arne Duncan, Expulsion Rate, Teacher Salaries, Funding, High-Minority, Teacher Salary, Out-of-School Suspensions, African American, Civil Rights, Low-Performing Schools, Grade Retention, Racism, Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection Survey, Discrimination, Black, Dropout, Public Education, African-Americans, African Americans, Tracking, The Great Equalizer, Department of Education, Zero Tolerance, Office for Civil Rights, Ineffective Teachers, Education, Secretary of Education, Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, Teachers, Inequality, Home News

The struggle to make sure a quality education is available to every child -- and not just a privilege for a few -- is the unfinished and critical business before the nation for it will determine America's future place on the global stage in a rapidly changing competitive world.

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Lesbian Chef Entitled To $1.6 Million After Boss Prayed To Cure Her Sexuality

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Gay Rights, Gay Discrimination, Mexican Restaurants, Mirella Salemi, Pray the Gay Away, LGBT Rights, Homophobia, Discrimination, Lesbians, Mary Ann's, Edward Globokar, Gay Voices News

It's a big payday for one New York-based lesbian chef who says her boss openly prayed to God to "heal" her. The New York Post reports that Mirella...

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Daimler Should Speak Up So Alabama Will Stand Down

Fred Redmond | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Alabama, Human Rights, Anti-Immigration Law, Racial Segregation, Workers? Rights, Mercedes-Benz, Discrimination, Daimler, HB 56. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Home News

Daimler can say loudly to the lawmakers of Alabama that it will not stand for a repetition of history and it will not tolerate discrimination in the workplace. In doing so, the company will show that when it says it supports global, human and workers' rights, it means it.

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