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Michigan commission asks attorney general if book bans violate civil rights law

LANSING, Michigan — The Michigan Civil Rights Commission has asked Attorney General Dana Nessel's office for a formal opinion on whether the banning of books and LGBTQ pride flags within schools violates a state law against discrimination.

Tribune News Service

How America's Growing Diversity Weakens the Case for Racial Preferences in Education

Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Reason

Keke Palmer claims she faced ‘breast milk discrimination’ at airport: ‘Why is that not a crime?’

‘I’m a mother for crying out loud,’ the actor and singer says

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Airbnb host with HIV ‘distraught’ after guest left blood tests leaflet behind in ‘horrific’ case of apparent homophobia

‘Since my HIV diagnosis in 2010, I’ve actually never been impacted by discrimination so much’

Wales Online

Report reveals ‘shocking’ exploitation of migrant workers in London

As well as issues with pay, the report also raises concern over bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment

Evening Standard

How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?

New healthcare guidance could deny female patients their legitimate rights. It should be withdrawn

The Guardian - UK

Millions of women are working during menopause, but US law isn't clear on employees' rights or employers' obligations

While she was interviewing Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler in March 2023, Drew Barrymore suddenly exclaimed: “I’m so hot … I think I’m having my first hot flash!”

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Higher self-harm risk for LGB people shows society has ‘long way to go’

Study looked at data from 2007 and 2014 and found no improvement in the situation between the two time points.

The Independent UK

US Supreme Court rules in favour of Alabama Black voters

Court ruled that Republican redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act’s provisions against racial discrimination.

Al Jazeera

Erode Additional Collector alleges caste discrimination by senior government official

Erode Additional Collector Manish Narnaware has written to Chief Secretary V. Irai Anbu, alleging caste discrimination by Gagandeep Singh Bedi, to whom he had reported when he was working in the Chennai Corporation

The Hindu

Alabama discriminated against Black voters, US supreme court rules

John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh join liberal justices in 5-4 decision that is major victory for Voting Rights Act

The Guardian - US

RAF veteran wrongly believed to be gay loses employment tribunal over 1975 discharge

Cpl Sean Walsh claimed he was discriminated against at time when gay people were barred from armed forces

The Guardian - UK

'Cowardly' killer joined prison gang, helped 'drive' riot, tribunal told

The murderer sued ACT Corrective Services, alleging racial discrimination.

The Canberra Times

Mind-reading tech ‘must include neurodivergent people to avoid bias’

UK data watchdog says science of monitoring brain and nervous system is expanding fast but holds ‘real danger’ of discrimination

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The Independent UK

Black workers at California Tesla factory allege rampant racism, seek class-action status

Tesla may face a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black factory workers in California described rampant racism and discrimination

The Independent UK

Report into discrimination within cricket to be published soon – Lucy Frazer

The ICEC report was initially due in autumn 2022.

Daily Mirror

Major UN report blasts UK for failing to tackle 'persistent' child discrimination

In its first examination of the UK in seven years, the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child said it 'remains deeply concerned about persistent discrimination' - be it in schools, in the youth justice system, or in the health system

The Guardian - UK

‘Now I am happy’: a woman’s 10-year fight for justice against gang-rapists

After a decade of delays and threats, Amena was the last of seven rape survivors resolved to fight. The verdict has been welcomed by Muslims facing increasing discrimination in India

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The Independent UK

Soccer authorities move toward tougher sanctions for racial abuse over last decade

Kevin-Prince Boateng set soccer on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination when he walked off the field to protest racial abuse by an opposing team’s fans a decade ago

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka's LGBTQ+ community holds Pride march, demands end to discrimination

Hundreds of members of Sri Lanka’s LGBTQ+ community have paraded through the streets of the capital Colombo to mark the Pride month and demand an end to discrimination

Daily Mirror

Wife sues husband for age discrimination after split – but other woman was OLDER

Eleanor Belson, 60, took spouse Tim, 72, to an employment tribunal, claiming he was 'ageist' in ending their marriage and making her redundant from his upmarket jewellery business

The Guardian - UK

Lucy Ward: ‘I loved Leeds … now I look at the club through different eyes’

Commentator talks to Donald McRae about fighting a sex discrimination case against her former club and tackling online trolls

The Conversation

Voices of Preston's Windrush generation – when I first arrived, I said: 'Really? I thought there were no slums in this place!'

From the earliest arrivals of what would become Preston’s “Windrush generation”, the status of the Caribbean diaspora was hotly contested in this post-industrial Lancashire town, as elsewhere. Discrimination and prejudice dogged the daily lives of people from the Caribbean who made their home here.

Daily Mirror

'I couldn't get a job interview until I changed my ethnic name to an easy one'

A woman who has faced 'name discrimination' her entire life has shared just how much things changed for her after swapping her birth name to one making its way up the baby books

The Independent UK

Donna Traynor thankful for support as BBC discrimination case is resolved

The industrial tribunal was resolved without any admission of liability in Belfast on Friday.

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