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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.

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Congress reignites a bipartisan effort to ban hair discrimination

Previous attempts to pass the legislation banning hair discrimination have stalled in Congress.

March 12, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
An election worker scans an envelope that holds a voting machine memory card at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Justice Department sues Georgia county, saying elections violate rights of Black voters

The U.S. Justice Department is suing a Georgia county, alleging that its method of electing county commissioners violates the rights of Black voters. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court asks a judge to stop Houston County from continuing to use countywide elections for each of its five commission seats.

January 17, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Lufthansa aircraft are pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, in March. The airline has agreed to pay a $4 million civil rights penalty by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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  • Religion

Lufthansa agrees to a record $4 million fine for its treatment of Jewish passengers

The German airline barred 128 Jewish passengers from their May 2022 connecting flight based on the alleged misconduct of a few. The U.S. government considers that discrimination; Lufthansa disagrees.

October 15, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Robins Air Force Base front gate sign in Houston County, Georgia. EDWARD ASPERA 78th Air Base Wing Public Affair

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Robins Air Force Base staffer sues, says bosses discriminated after learning he was gay

A Robins Air Force Base employee is suing the Air Force, alleging he was discriminated against after his supervisors found out he was gay, according to court records.

September 06, 2024
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  • Alba Rosa
An aerial view of Sea Island, a privately owned luxury resort enclave next to St. Simons Island in Glynn County.

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  • Law

Sea Island Resort in Georgia sued by former worker alleging she was fired because of her pregnancy

The plaintiff wrote that she was forced to leave her onsite housing and rendered “effectively homeless.”

June 24, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
A home in Hogg Hummock - Sapelo Island Credit: Brian Brown/Vanishing Georgia

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Sapelo Island residents renew rezoning fight at historic community

Black residents of Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island refiled a legal challenge to zoning they fear will lead to higher taxes and push them off their ancestral Gullah Geechee community in McIntosh County.

June 17, 2024
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  • Mary Landers
Umpire Ángel Hernández looks on during the first inning of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros, Aug. 4, 2023, in New York.

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  • Sports

Umpire Ángel Hernández, who unsuccessfully sued MLB for discrimination, retires

During a career that lasted more than three decades, the 62-year-old Hernández was often scorned by players, managers and fans for missed calls and quick ejections — some in high-profile situations.

May 28, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Ellen Murphy, a representative for the Georgia Southern University students, reads a list of demands in protest the institution abruptly discontinuing programs designed to lessen discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people. April 29, 2024, in Statesboro, GA.

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Georgia Southern students protest termination of LGBTQIA+ program

Students and faculty members at Georgia Southern University’s main campus held a sit-in rally on Monday to protest the termination of a program aimed at reducing discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people.

April 30, 2024
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  • Justin Taylor ,
  • Craig Nelson ,
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A Cobb County School bus moves on street Friday, March 13, 2020, in Kennesaw, Ga. Georgia's second-largest school district on Thursday, July 14, 2022 approved a policy allowing some employees who aren't certified police officers carry guns in schools, but excluded teachers from those who can be armed.

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Federal judge rules school board districts illegal in Georgia school system, calls for new map

A federal judge has ruled that school board districts in Georgia's second-largest school system appear to be unconstitutionally discriminatory and must be redrawn ahead of next year's elections.

December 18, 2023
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  • Associated Press
People of color who have a doctor who looks like them report more satisfaction with their health care. Here, Abel Woldu and Dr. Kelsey Angell participate in the University of Minnesota's white coat ceremony in 2022. Half of that incoming class of doctors-in-training are people of color.

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  • Health

Black Americans expect to face racism in the doctor's office, survey finds

For many people of color in this country, a visit to the doctor means being extra careful about their appearance in the hope to be treated fairly during the appointment.

December 05, 2023
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  • Maria Godoy
Members of the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles drive with signs reading: "#Stop Asian Hate," in a caravan around Koreatown to denounce hate against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles on March 19, 2021.

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  • Race

Most Asian Americans say they face discrimination and are often treated as foreigners

In a Pew survey, Asian Americans reported facing the "model minority" stereotype, which assumes they're smarter and more well off, as well as being treated as outsiders even if they were U.S. born.

November 30, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
TikTok is facing allegations of discrimination and retaliation by two of its former employees.

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  • Business

2 Black TikTok workers claim discrimination: Both were fired after complaining to HR

Two Black employees bring charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging they suffered discrimination and retaliation while working at the social media giant.

September 21, 2023
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  • Dara Kerr
Tucker Mayor Frank Auman

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  • News

Tucker passes non-discrimination law after four years of talks

Residents erupted in cheers on June 12 as the Tucker City Council voted 6-0 to pass an ordinance protecting against “unlawful discrimination” from businesses and organizations. 

June 14, 2023
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  • Logan Ritchie
The ExxonMobil Baton Rouge complex, pictured in 2016, was the site where five nooses were found, the EEOC alleges.

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  • Business

A U.S. federal agency is suing Exxon after 5 nooses were found at a Louisiana complex

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil saying the company failed to take action to prevent a racially hostile work environment.

March 05, 2023
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  • Giulia Heyward
A Freddie Gray protest in Baltimore, Md., in 2015.

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  • National

How one photographer is using his camera as a weapon against poverty and racism

In his recently published photobook, "No Justice, No Peace," Devin Allen confronts readers with the reality of how little has changed since the civil rights movement.

January 16, 2023
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  • Seyma Bayram
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