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.michiganpublic.org/opinion/2026-08-07/auchters-art-weird-names
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit
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.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/doge-humanities-grants-unconstitutional
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.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/hative-hawaiian-scholarship-program-lawsuit
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/supreme-court-catholic-schools-religion-colorado-00880551
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/native-hawaiian-healthcare-scholarships
"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
"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...
"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...
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
The Department of Justice last week petitioned to join a lawsuit against LAUSD in which a group has accused the school district of discriminating against white students...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/fbi-raids-lausd-offices-superintendent-00798374
In 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Civil Rights Act. It had two critical sections:
This meant that private business owners of public accommodations such as theaters, trains, hotels, and restaurants, could not legally refuse service to customers merely because they were Black. All commercial and social life access had to be offered without regard to skin color.
This meant that if a business owner discriminated against you, they could be found guilty of a misdemeanor, imprisoned for at least 30 days, pay a fine of at least $500 (a huge amount in 1875) — and pay you directly another $500 for each instance of discrimination.
This Civil Rights Act also prohibited racial discrimination in the selection of jury members, or the fact that they had dark skin or were previously enslaved. This was important because in the South, all-white juries habitually acquitted White defendants accused of crimes against Black citizens. A more impartial justice system was the intended outcome.
Read more: https://uslawexplained.com/civil_rights_act_of_1875
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