Recent Discrimination Articles page 8

Philadelphia Inquirer - To liberals, crime is a product of racial and economic discrimination and will not lessen until we take steps to produce an equitable society. Zimring calls this the "No Peace Without Justice" school of thought. The peace-and-justice quotient did not ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D., Del.). This week. The House will consider bills on workplace discrimination and small-business contracting. The Senate will continue to debate fiscal 2008 budgets for the departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human ...

Philadelphia Daily News - A group of agents has filed an age-discrimination suit against the FBI that seeks to reverse the policy. Last month, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission judge conditionally certified the class of supervisors, allowing the case to move forward. ...

Los Angeles Times - Ford's difficulties sprouted in the wake of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, where 18,000 people gathered to debate the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism and racial and caste discrimination. Some activists at ...

International Herald Tribune - The Tigers have been fighting since 1983 for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's minority ethnic Tamils after decades of discrimination at the hands of the Sinhalese majority. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the fighting, 5,000 of ...

St. Petersburg Times - Supreme Court rulings in the last 20 years on civil rights and sex discrimination have opened schools up to potentially huge financial punishments for abuses, driving some schools to act. And the National Association of State Directors of Teacher ...

Baltimore Sun - Describing the sentence of Andrew Maurice Fisher as "blatant discrimination," Pat Ferguson, president of the local NAACP chapter, likened the situation to that of the "Jena 6" case, in which claims of racial discrimination have been made involving ...

Boston Globe - The International Brotherhood of Goalies already has engaged legal counsel for a potential discrimination suit. It can get awfully cold standing in front of that 24-square-foot guard shack. Etc. Better 'tending through aerobics Bruins goalie Tim Thomas ...

San Francisco Gate - ... to Project Sentinel, 1055 Sunnyvale- Saratoga Road, Suite No. 3, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, or call (408) 720-9888 or (888) 324-7468. To find the fair housing agency serving the area where you live or have property, call the Housing Discrimination Hotline ...

New York Post - Melman claims age discrimination is a pattern at the institution. He said that another department head was removed because hospital president Spencer Foreman told him he's "65 and had a lot put away," according to the lawsuit filed at Bronx Supreme ...