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What is a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation?

What is a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation? Why It’s Important to Understand this Police Accountability Process — and Its Limitations By John Guzman Communications Strategist – Police Accountability You’ve seen the headlines before. A police department has a harrowing record filled with multiple incidents of police misconduct. Officers are harming people in innumerable ways, from inflicting violence […]

What Happens When You Erase a Gang Database?

What happens when you erase a gang database? By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD TMI Senior Researcher and Statistician New research shows that the elimination of gang databases in Portland and Chicago did not result in an increase in crime, refuting claims that such databases reduce crime. For more than a decade, the New York City Police […]

What Florida Stands to Lose From its War on Books and Black History: Banned Books and Educational Crisis

What Florida Stands to Lose from Its War on Books and Black History By Ishena Robinson Deputy Editorial Director Public education has been taken hostage in Florida. And the state legislature and governor’s feverish campaign to strictly limit what facts and information can be accessed in public learning institutions is the driving force behind this […]

What Are Public Comment Periods, and Why Should You Know About Them?

What Are Public Comment Periods, and Why Should You Know About Them? If you are feeling compelled to stand up against harmful actions taken by the Trump administration, public comments are a way that anyone can directly influence agency policies. By Nigel Stinson Editorial Manager, Economic Justice and Narrative Strategy Source: Shutterstock Every day, government […]

What are Executive Orders and What Do They Do?

Executive Orders 101 What Executive Orders Actually Do and How They Might Impact You By Nigel Stinson Editorial Manager, Economic Justice and Narrative Strategy Source: Shutterstock.com Immediately after taking office, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders that tested the limits of his authority. Some of these orders were instantly met with legal […]

Wet Seal discriminated against former black manager, EEOC says

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 has fired its chief executive, overseen a board overhaul and revamped its strategy to bolster flagging sales. Read the full […]

WET SEAL Clothing Store Chain Executives Fire African-American Employees For Sake of “Diversity” and “Brand Image” Shocking Allegations in Federal Discrimination Class Action Filed Today

LDF’s Economic Justice Program has filed a national class action lawsuit, Cogdell v. Wet Seal, alleging that top executives at Wet Seal directed senior managers to get rid of African American store management employees for the sake of its “brand image,” and to hire more white employees.

WET SEAL Clothing Store Chain Executives Fire African-American Employees For Sake of “Diversity” and “Brand Image” Shocking Allegations in Federal Discrimination Class Action Filed Today

(New York, NY)  A national class action lawsuit filed today charges that top executives at Wet Seal directed senior managers to get rid of African American store management employees for the sake of its “brand image,” and to hire more white employees. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Orange County, California, alleges that since […]

Westchester County Fails to Comply with Court Order and End Housing Segregation

LDF, along with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), strongly urge Westchester County to comply with a consent decree in which the county agreed to take specific actions to eradicate housing discrimination and expand equal housing opportunity within its boundaries. Despite the promise of […]

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