A symposium was held earlier this year, entitled: “Perceptions of Race and Racial Inequity in the Obama Era.” Unsurprisingly, but still dumbfounding nonetheless, a set of findings determined that “many Whites see the racial pendulum as having swung beyond equality to a place where anti-White prejudice is now a bigger…
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Yesterday, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard a death penalty challenge driven by the presence of a Confederate flag atop the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La. A black juror who refused to serve in a death penalty trial because of the flag’s presence teamed up with civil rights organizations to…
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Apparently, time, resources, and funds were deemed/considered necessary to substantiate the obvious: that there is a lack of diversity in the non-profit industrial complex. I am of two minds about such reports: on the one hand it is absolutely laughable that a written report is warranted to substantiate the obvious…
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The 4th Circuit recently vacated, in part, the District Court’s ruling, in EEOC v. Xerxes, on defendant’s summary judgment motion in a Title VII racially hostile work environment claim. Specifically, in Xerxes (fiberglass tank manufacturer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota), the 4th Circuit held that there was an issue of material…
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I am a New York State licensed attorney with a multidisciplinary background in U.S. civil rights law, international human rights law, non-profit management, public policy, economics and international development. My litigation experience has centered on civil rights claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting…
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