Watch 4:01
A Texas regulatory board removed discrimination protections. Critics are fighting back
Earlier this month a Texas regulatory board voted to remove discrimination protections for some seeking social services. The protections had prohibited social workers from turning away clients on the basis of disability, gender identity or sexual orientation. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette…
Watch 8:08
CDC’s politicization ‘extremely dangerous’ for Americans, says its former head
The CDC is traditionally seen as the leading government agency to monitor public health and communicate key information to the public. But according to four former heads of the agency, the Trump administration has been interfering in the CDC's central…
SCOTUS rules LGBTQ people protected from job discrimination
The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
How language differences can spark fear, racism amid the coronavirus pandemic
Fear of strangers extends beyond racism and discrimination against people who look like they might come from another place – it includes people who sound different, too.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against his company over the last three decades.
The settlement was announced Tuesday and comes months after a similar agreement was reached in a lawsuit brought against Harvard University by the National Association of the Deaf.
The comedian and Oscar-winning actress accuses the streaming service of giving her a lowball offer that was part of a larger company tendency to underpay black women.
Police investigated suspicious packages found near the court just before the justices were to hear arguments over LGBT rights.
The part of Title VII that bars employers from discriminating "because of...sex" is at the heart of three cases that the Supreme Court will hear Oct. 8, during the first week of the new 2019 term.
Additional Support Provided By:
