The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 made it easier for workers to file so-called "reverse discrimination" lawsuits after siding with Ohio worker Marlean Ames who claimed she didn't get a job and was ...

The guidance outlines the key federal antidiscrimination laws which it is based on, as well as examples of unlawful and ...

"The Voting Rights Act, passed 60 years ago this year, was enacted to protect communities from just this type of ...

On March 19, 2025, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the United States Justice Department jointly issued two technical assistance documents focused on educating the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2020, Marlean Ames alleged that she was denied a job promotion and subsequently ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new Pew Research Center report on discrimination in 2025 reveals both broad consensus and deep divides over who is most affected. According to the nationally representative survey ...

Since the 1970s, federal civil rights statutes—and many state analogues—have imposed liability for ‘disparate impact’: when facially neutral policies disproportionately harm protected groups.

This week, the Office of Public Management (OPM) issued a memo urging federal agencies to “robustly protect and enforce” federal employees’ right to engage in religious expression in the workplace.

Virginia Republican gubernatorial hopeful Winsome Earle-Sears seems to have a very loose definition of what is and what is not discrimination. Earle-Sears and Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger got ...

Federal authorities moved Friday to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump's administration to halt the use ...

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is challenging a new California law designed to protect Jewish students from ...