#racial-discrimination

#racial-discrimination

Former President Donald Trump released a campaign video on Tuesday titled Higher Education, in which he outlined plans to seize the endowments of any college or university practicing affirmative action.Trump began by raging against the Marxist takeover of higher education and vowed to change how colleges and universities are accredited so that higher education will reflect values that defend the American tradition and Western civilization.

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent
Stanford University is siding with Harvard in a Supreme Court case challenging the Ivy League school's use of race as a factor in admissions - a practice that critics say discriminates against Asian Americans.In a brief filed with the high court, Stanford said that it and other "highly selective" universities use race as "one factor among many" in selecting students from large pools of qualified applicants.

Ministers should commit to review education guidance so data on racist incidents in schools can once again be collected and acted on, a Labour MP has suggested.Janet Daby warned there are things where the Government has gone backward rather than going forward as she raised the issue during her Westminster Hall debate on racial discrimination in schools.

Nearly 80 years after the infamous Zoot Suit Riots, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to condemn the violent attacks by racist mobs on Latino, African American and Filipino youths as "one of Los Angeles' most shameful moments in history."Supervisor Hilda Solis marked the anniversary of the 1943 attacks Tuesday by introducing a motion denouncing the devastation from the riots and recommitting to fighting racial discrimination.

In the last few years, California has experienced extreme wildfires, heatwaves and the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic.What has become abundantly clear, particularly from the ravages of the pandemic on low-income communities of color, is that disaster risk is not an equal opportunity affair.The latest evidence of this came this past weekend as the Pajaro River levee failed and flooded a small town populated mainly by migrant workers and their families.

Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons, a branch of one of New York City's oldest and most prestigious real estate firms, wrongfully terminated the contract of a Black real estate agent who raised concerns about racial discrimination there, a federal judge ruled last week.Shauncy Claud, who worked as an independent contractor for the firm for eight months, was awarded $788,000 in back pay, punitive damages against the firm and damages for her emotional distress.

DOHA, Qatar  The news conference was ostensibly about a soccer game, but the match was the last thing on the mind of the Iranian reporter as he rose to speak.Gripping the microphone, he set aside his question and instead started with a scolding.Our country is named ih-RAHN, not EYE-ran, he lectured the United States captain Tyler Adams.

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Book publisher Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit accusing a Florida school district's anti-LGBTQ+ book ban of violating constitutional rights to free speech and due process.The lawsuit's plaintiffs include the publisher, the free-speech organization PEN America, as well as authors and parents who have been negatively affected by the ban.

A senior NHS scientist has won a race claim after her colleague recorded her name as Paininarse on a work spreadsheet.Ubah Jama, a biochemist of Somali origin, claimed that she was a victim of numerous acts of racial discrimination over a two-year period while working for an east London trust.Her alleged ill-treatment culminated in the offensive insertion of the phrase paininarse on a shared Microsoft Excel document that could be seen by colleagues across two hospitals, an employment tribunal heard.

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There was strong overlap between "embrace equity" and other topics related to representation: 8% of relevant articles related to this category linked to the fight against racial discrimination, while 7% were related to the LGBTQ+ community
Behind "Embrace Equity", the categories "Transversal Feminism" (6%), "Women's Health" (5%) and "Women in Sport" (3%) generated the most interest

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) sparked a bevy of condemnation and fact-checks from the left after he claimed the media was creating a book ban hoax to try and smear his policies in Florida.They've tried to create in Florida a narrative.It's basically a book ban hoax.It's a hoax, DeSantis declared.

RALEIGH, N.C. - The North Carolina Supreme Court has struck down the legislature's most recent iteration of a photo voter ID law as an unconstitutional measure passed in part to discriminate against AfricanAmerican voters."While most people who have one of the acceptable forms of photo identification do not run the risk of being disenfranchised by this statute, the experiences of plaintiffs and other witnesses at trial showed that for themselves and others like them, the risk of disenfranchisement is very real," the opinion states.

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The captain tasked with overseeing the troubled East Los Angeles sheriff's station has been reassigned amid a probe into accusations of racial bias and whistleblower retaliation.Last weekend, The Times reported on a memo claiming that Capt.Pilar Chavez allegedly schemed to give valued detective bureau positions to Latino sergeants to avoid promoting an "angry black" sergeant who had testified about the presence of deputy gangs at the station.

Hairspray could have worked in a quiet theater.The songs are that catchy-doo-wop after soul pop with nary a slow ballad.But what really made our particular viewing of the award-winning, nationally-touring musical memorable was the reaction it drew from its audience.When Tracey Turnblad (Niki Metcalf) swooped in to kiss her crush Link Larken (Nick Cartazzo), people to our right shouted: "Ooo!"

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from voters in Kansas to review a state court decision they say allows for racial gerrymandering of congressional districts there.In a controversial decision last year, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld a Republican-drawn map that had been blocked by a lower court over partisan gerrymandering and the dilution of minority voting strength.

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Vikings hired Brian Flores as their defensive coordinator on Monday, their first step toward trying to revive a once-dominant unit that ranked among the NFL's worst last season.Flores was a senior defensive assistant and linebackers coach this season for Pittsburgh, after three years as head coach in Miami.

A Tube driver was removed from his role after opening the train doors on the wrong side of the platform, a tribunal heard.The driver, identified only as Mr I Odewale, was demoted to a Customer Services Assistant in 2017 after the safety incident.It came to light after Mr Odewale took London Underground to tribunal, claiming a refusal of his bid to retrain as a train operator in 2021 was racial discrimination.

A couple from Kelowna, B.C., who were escorted off their flight from Toronto in August have filed a lawsuit against Swoop Airlines and two of its employees, alleging racial discrimination and defamation.Andre Henry and Jhody Batiste, who are Black, claimed they're "living nightmare of an embarrassment" after being removed from the plane over a minor seating dispute.