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Cosby Lawyers Defend Public Statements in Dickinson Defamation Suit
Attorneys for Bill Cosby filed a motion Thursday in a defamation lawsuit brought by reality television personality and former model…
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Secret Service Settles Decades-Old Racial Discrimination Suit
The Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service announced Tuesday the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2000…
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Former Versace Employee Claims Code Used for Black Shoppers
A former employee for a high-end Versace store claims that the establishment secretly alerts staffers when an African-American person enters…
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Black Women Booted from Napa Valley Train File $11M Suit
Five black women who were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train this summer have filed an $11 million racial…
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U.S. Court Halts Contentious Law on Contact Lens Price-Fixing
Lindsay Whitehurst, ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has halted a new Utah law…
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Workers Sue McDonald’s For Discrimination, Opening New Front In Franchise Fight
Dave Jamieson, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—A group of former McDonald’s workers from Virginia are suing their stores for racial…
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Wrongful Death Trial to Revisit Michael Jackson’s Checkered Life [Reuters]
[Reuters] – Jury selection began on Tuesday in a Los Angeles civil trial that will revisit the checkered life and…
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Ex-loan officer claims Wells Fargo targeted black communities for shoddy loans
(The Washington Post) For nearly a decade, Beth Jacobson lived inside the vast machinery of subprime mortgages that shook the nation’s economy. In…
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