Marchers participate in the “Hometown Heroes” parade honoring essential workers in New York City. (Roy Rochlin / Getty Images)
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Speaking of revisionist history: In her letter to the editor of July 14, Patricia McDaniel certainly invents a lot when it comes to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.A little research will show that the heavily…
The global pandemic has dramatically altered work practices, and
many of these changes are expected to be long lasting. One such
practice is remote working. The increasing popularity and need for
remote working, particularly in the last…
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1963, his advisers urged him to abandon President John F. Kennedy's pursuit of civil rights law. If he did not, they warned, he would lose the support of the Southern Democrats, who were…
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Yarleny Roa-Dugan is not easily fazed. In her life, she’s weathered young motherhood, an early divorce, and the daily pressures of her job…
State Republican lawmakers in the United States are pushing laws banning vaccine mandates to give denials of a Covid-19 vaccine the same legal protections that are often associated with gender, religion, and race issues.Many Republican…
One of us is a former white head of the Los Angeles Police Department, and the other is a black civil rights attorney who regularly sues his department.Seventeen years ago we stopped fighting and co-founded the Community Safety…
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A class action lawsuit against Frontier Airlines continues after a federal judge denied dismissal requests from four flight attendants alleging that the Denver-based airline was discriminating against…