The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has been called the law firm for black America. Once run by Thurgood Marshall, the group played a major role in desegregating public schools and fighting restrictions at the ballot ...
At a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday about ending the ‘school-to-prison pipeline,’ leaders in the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said they expect to provide guidance to schools about school discipline policies, a measure that would add ...
At a congressional hearing billed as the first-ever focused on ending the “school-to-prison pipeline,” Edward Ward emerged as a voice of experience. Ward, a recent high school graduate from Chicago, recalled classmates suspended for failing ...
(The Root) — On Wednesday, less than two months after the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Mississippi officials for systematically incarcerating African-American children, the Senate heard its first-ever testimony about the “school-to-prison pipeline” ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that the Foothill Ranch-based Wet Seal illegally discriminated against a former store manager after one of the company’s executives complained about too many black employees at a store in Pennsylvania, ...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found a basis for Nicole Cogdell’s claim that she was racially discriminated against at the clothing retailer Wet Seal’s King of Prussia store – the case now moves ...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that retailer Wet Seal Inc.discriminated against a former African American store manager. It’s just the latest problem plaguing the struggling Foothill Ranch company, which in the space of five months ...
