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*In a lawsuit filed Friday (April 5) in Los Angeles Superior Court, a veteran African American executive accuses Fox Sports Corporate Group of racial discrimination, claiming it currently employs 34 executives above the VP level – and not one of them is black. A lawyer for plaintiff Jerry Davis alleges in the lawsuit, “Indeed, to [...]
*Medro Johnson, an employee of Sears Home Improvement Products in Natomas, Sacramento, fought racial discrimination and won big to the tune of $5.2 million. Johnson was the target of a co-worker who harassed him and used racial slurs that caused him stress and humiliation. Johnson was at an August 2008 company barbecue with his family when [...]
*ABC and Warner Horizon Television have won a class action lawsuit led by two African American men who claimed “The Bachelor” violated racial discrimination laws. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Nashville residents Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson alleged that the roles of the Bachelor and Bachelorette on the hit reality series have failed to feature [...]
*George Lopez let off some steam during a recent live stand-up comedy performance on HBO when he told Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to shove it. “Sheriff Joe in Arizona, f*ck you, you f*cking puto. How about that? F*ck you. You fat mother-f*cker. F*ck you,” Lopez said during part of his live stand-up special [...]
*African American football players Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson are leading a group of Nashville residents in a class-action lawsuit to be filed Wednesday (April 18) against the ABC dating series “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” for racial discrimination. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the potential plaintiffs point out that over 10 years of the [...]
*A racial discrimination case against Cindy Barshop, formerly one of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York City,” has been dismissed, reports the New York Post. Barshop, who debuted last season of the reality show but was not hired for the next, runs Completely Bare, a spa-and-waxing salon with locations in New York, Los Angeles, [...]
*When the cast of NBC’s “The Playboy Club” faced a room full of TV critics in Beverly Hills last month, cast member Jenifer Lewis took the lead in defending the series against allegations that the show – set in 1963 – glorifies the exploitation of women. One of the clear talking points the cast used [...]
*Comedian Michael Colyar is accusing staff onboard a recent United Airlines flight of racial discrimination after he was kicked off the aircraft following a baggage dispute, reports TMZ.com. The actor, who voiced a character in Disney’s animated ‘The Princess and The Frog,” claims a flight attendant on a plane in Virginia asked him to move [...]
*The days of having to go in through the back door or checking for the sign that reads “Whites Only” are supposed to be long gone. But, Jim Crow is still alive and well and disenfranchising young folks who need jobs. A company in Louisiana is accused of turning away African Americans for jobs. They see [...]
*The private suburban Philadelphia swim club that made headlines last year for turning away black and Hispanic kids has been sold at a bankruptcy auction to a local synagogue. The Huntingdon Valley-based Valley Club was sold for $1.46 million Thursday to Congregation Beth Solomon Synagogue & Community Center, according to reports. The club had filed [...]
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