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#discrimination

The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City will pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages to various plaintiffs who were denied service at the hotel. The jury awarded $1 to the NDN Collective, the Indigenous advocacy group that filed the lawsuit.

UC Berkeley admitted to discriminating against an Israeli researcher, agreed to reverse course and invite her to teach on campus and will pay $60,000, in a settlement of her lawsuit alleging she was ousted over nationality, announced Wednesday. Yael Nativ, a dance researcher and sociologist, sued the university for violating state anti-discrimination laws when UC Berkeley allegedly denied her a teaching opportunity after the department chair sent Nativ a WhatsApp message saying the situation on campus was too hot following student-led pro-Palestinian protests.

Today's election is another example of discrimination against this dismissed and disadvantaged group

With its plain white walls and barred windows, the building in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, also offers a splash of color in the sign with the bold pink lettering right above the entrance: Queer Cafe. "After we put it up above the entrance, all the threats came," Grigorita, the 27-year-old manager of the cafe, told DW. "But no," Grigorita said. "That sign is not going anywhere. It's the whole point of having a queer space in the city: It should be visible from the outside."

Steven Lacey Steven Lacey had gone his whole life without being the target of hate crime, until this last year, in which he has already been abused four times. The 52-year-old, from London, is physically disabled. He has a cleft hand, a missing fibula and a shortened tibia. Steven says the last 12 months have been the worst he's experienced in terms of discrimination, and he says he thinks it's not going to improve any time soon.

I think they were worried about the optics of giving money to Muslim organizations,

"How do you feel life has worked out for you so far?" Salem Pierce was asked as part of her application for a visual design lead position at an unnamed company online. The application also asked that she "record a short, roughly 2-5 minute video response and paste the link here," the 30-year-old graphic designer revealed on Twitter. Pierce described the demand as a "new level of job application hell" and many others online agreed.

A Jane Doe claims she was retaliated against and wrongfully terminated as a contractor for Fox Corporation after she reported that her boss sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions, a stunning lawsuit claims. In the complaint, which was filed in Los Angeles County this week, the Jane Doe who is a black woman who identifies as a member of the LGBTQ community alleges she was subjected to gender and race discrimination, as well as harassment due to a hostile work environment.

Lane Community College board members discriminated against President Stephanie Bulger on the basis of race and gender, according to findings in a recently unearthed investigative report. The report paints a damning picture of a board chair who allegedly steamrolled the president-a Black woman-in conversations, dismissed answers from female staff members and sought out their male counterparts instead, and physically intimidated a student outside a meeting.

An Israeli professor is suing the University of California after UC Berkeley allegedly blocked her from teaching because the situation at the school was too hot after Hamas attacked Israel and Israel retaliated. A seven-month internal UC Berkeley investigation found the school discriminated against Yael Nativ because she was Israeli, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Alameda Superior Court said. The university had no comment on the complaint.

The irony of being lectured for 'insularity' during an anti-discrimination workshop highlights the unawareness of those leading the training, showcasing a disconnect in understanding.

A California federal judge has allowed the bulk of a former nonequity partner's claims that Duane Morris systemically misclassified and shifted costs of business onto non-equity partners and made discriminatory pay decisions based on her race and gender to move forward.

The case was the first gender identity discrimination case to reach the federal court and centred on the definition of sex and what it means to be a woman.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling against indiscriminate ICE raids based on racial identity, language, or location, deeming them unlawful.

"We have worked with Ben closely throughout his tenure as executive director, and speak from experience. Ben is under attack by many who, through a pattern of misinformation, character assassination, and discrimination, seek to oust him from his position and drive him out of the Sierra Club."