St. Mary Catholic vs. Roy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peydLoOeajw 

Catholic preschools ask SCOTUS for taxpayer-funded discrimination!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m4zFwTDev8I?is=ThOdMHxi2eP6d186&themeRefresh=1

This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

The move marks a fundamental shift for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Without this data, it will be much harder for the agency to identify widespread cases of discrimination in hiring and promotions, experts and former employees of the commission say. And, they warn, it will bring the Trump administration one step closer to reshaping the commission from an independent watchdog into an arm of the executive branch narrowly focused on advancing the political grievances of Donald Trump’s base…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/02/eeoc-workplace-discrimination-data-trump

 

"Abdul, what is your plan to bridge the gap between the Black community ...

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tupJ8LBUGcM

Judge orders Virginia county to replace Confederate names it restored to schools in 2024 | PBS News

Confederate army officers' names are "vestiges" of Shenandoah County's segregationist history that required separate schools for Black and white students. 

"The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact," Urbanski wrote…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-orders-virginia-county-to-replace-confederate-names-it-restored-to-schools-in-2024

 

Auchter's Art: Weird names

This week, voters here in Michigan chose a man named Abdul El-Sayed to be Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate. Like him, don't like him. Like his policies, don't like his policies. Vote for him in November, don't vote for him. Your choice. But don't fall for the BS and demonize him because of his name.

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/opinion/2026-08-07/auchters-art-weird-names

 

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit

 

Federal judge asks Michigan high court to weigh in on limiting state civil rights law

The lawsuit was filed by the anti-abortion rights organization Right to Life of Michigan. The legal action claims the recently adopted provision of Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act places the organization in an impossible position. The provision forbids discrimination in hiring or promotion based on exercising the right to have an abortion...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-07-14/federal-judge-asks-michigan-high-court-to-weigh-in-on-limiting-state-civil-rights-law

 

Republicans are moving to eliminate majority-Black districts in the South

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uHowAyWYJDs

 

Student files civil rights suit against U-M alleging retaliation for support of Palestinian rights

In the complaint filed by the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, Walker, who is Black and Muslim, accused the university of discriminating against him for his advocacy for Palestinian rights. 

“Defendants acted against Plaintiff Walker because of the content of his speech and the viewpoints he expressed, as well as his racial and religious identities,” the suit reads. “As a result, Defendants subjected Mr. Walker to a deliberate and unlawful pattern of harassment and retaliation.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-05-22/student-files-civil-rights-suit-against-u-m-alleging-retaliation-for-support-of-palestinian-rights

 

Doge slashing of humanities grants in 2025 ruled biased and unconstitutional

US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/doge-humanities-grants-unconstitutional

 

Federal discrimination watchdog sues New York Times for editor snub - POLITICO

Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s sole Democratic appointee, blasted the Republican majority’s decision to file the lawsuit as politically motivated. 

“I fear this litigation is driven not by the merits, but by a desire to advance the administration’s political agenda, which weakens civil rights protections for workers and undermines employer efforts to advance equal employment opportunity,” Kotagal wrote in a statement posted on social media…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/federal-discrimination-watchdog-new-york-times-lawsuit-00907157

 

A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination

Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/hative-hawaiian-scholarship-program-lawsuit

 

Supreme Court takes up another clash between religious and LGBTQ+ rights - POLITICO

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from the state’s universal pre-K program because they won’t agree to accept children with same-sex parents...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/supreme-court-catholic-schools-religion-colorado-00880551

 

US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships

Other Hawaiian educational initiatives have been targeted through legal challenges aimed at diversity programs. The Kamehameha Schools, a private school system established with the inheritance of Hawaiian princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, was specifically created to boost educational outcomes of Native Hawaiians...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/native-hawaiian-healthcare-scholarships

 

MAGA “absolutely” wants to reinstitute Jim Crow

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6yRKCmRlZVw

 

Judge orders University of Pennsylvania to provide list of Jews to federal agency

"While we acknowledge the important role of the EEOC to investigate discrimination, we also have an obligation to protect the rights of our employees. We continue to believe that requiring Penn to create lists of Jewish faculty and staff, and to provide personal contact information, raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns. The University does not maintain employee lists by religion," the university's statement read…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/judge-penn-jewish-employees-list-trump

 

Democratic AGs sue HUD over anti-discrimination enforcement roll back - POLITICO

"HUD is attempting to impose vague, ideologically motivated and unlawful conditions on program funding," Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said in a press conference Monday. "If these actions are left unchallenged, discrimination in housing is almost certain to increase." 

The HUD guidance to state agencies reflects an administration-wide effort to pull back on anti-discrimination regulations that some Republicans and industry advocates consider overly zealous...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/16/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-hud-anti-discrimination-00829849 

 

Trump’s ‘racist hate speech’ and migration crackdowns violate human rights, UN panel says

"Portraying them as criminals or as a burden, by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level, particularly the president, may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes," it said, in what appeared to be an unprecedented singling out of comments made by a US president. 

Trump has long sought to blame immigrants for crime, despite a wide range of statistics showing that they bolster the US economy and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/trumps-racist-hate-speech-human-rights-violations-warn-un-watchdog

 

Education Department Withholding Records on Discrimination Cases, ProPublica Lawsuit Alleges — ProPublica

When President Joe Biden left office, about 12,000 investigations were open; by December 2025, there were nearly 24,000. ProPublica reporting has found that new complaints as well as older ones included in the backlog often are dismissed without investigation. OCR workers have said they feel as if they're working in a "dismissal factory."…

https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit