Oct 17 How ‘ban the box’ policies unintentionally cause discrimination against these workers By Making Sen$e Editor A new paper concludes that ban-the-box policies actually reduce work opportunities for young, low-skilled black and Hispanic men with clean records. Continue reading
Sep 08 Airbnb announces steps to prevent discrimination By Eugene Mason Airbnb announced Thursday that it is taking steps to protect against discrimination. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 8:12 Baltimore mayor urges turning anger into action after DOJ report on policing By PBS News Hour The Justice Department released a blistering report Wednesday, spelling out a long pattern of racial discrimination by the Baltimore Police Department. An investigation of policing from 2010 to 2015 has revealed an unmistakable picture of disparities. Gwen Ifill gets reaction… Continue watching
Jul 22 Airbnb enlists Eric Holder to address racial discrimination By Kenya Downs Airbnb has a racial discrimination problem, and they're enlisting former Attorney General Eric Holder to help fix it. Continue reading
Jul 02 Controversial NC law restricting LGBT protections left largely unchanged By Omar Etman A minor change to the controversial North Carolina state law that limits protections for LGBT workers was approved by the state legislature Friday night. Continue reading
May 05 For transgender people in North Carolina, it’s about more than bathrooms By Roben Farzad Last month, North Carolina’s state legislature passed HB2 -- a controversial bill that requires transgender people to use the bathroom correlated with the gender on their birth certificate and excludes gay and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections. Read how two… Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch 6:28 Women’s soccer players sue over wage gap By PBS News Hour The U.S. women’s soccer team became national heroes when they won the 2015 World Cup. But members of the team are now suing over wage discrimination, claiming that they earned four times less than their male counterparts despite generating $20… Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch 7:36 As racial hate groups rise, strategies to shut them down By PBS News Hour What motivates hate groups and domestic terrorists? With the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist movements making a resurgence, special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center about solutions to stop the hate… Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch 2:15 Analyzing social media for Super Tuesday insights By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan and the NewsHour data team analyze social media for insights on today’s Super Tuesday vote, including: the topics that matter most to Facebook users (racism, discrimination, Christianity and guns), the most-searched Republican candidate on the Internet (Donald Trump),… Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch 3:35 Why the world could use a Muslim jedi By PBS News Hour How can we relieve anti-Muslim discrimination? Haroon Moghul says that adding a Muslim character to a certain science fiction franchise might go a long way in changing perceptions and offering a vision of a more united future. Continue watching