Hundreds of black and Latino job applicants have accused Denver of discriminating against them by giving them an employment test that was not validated and that favored non-minorities. The city admits that the test discriminated in eight of 21 job classifications, so the federal trial that began Monday mostly revolves around the amount of damages claimed by more than 900 plaintiffs. Plaintiff …
Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, is tucked in Louisiana’s north-west corner, bordering small towns in Texas and Arkansas. It has bayous, weeping willows, shotgun houses, and blues music, but lacks joie de vivre. It is the sober man’s New Orleans.
A Secret Service agent stands guard during a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in South Carolina. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post) After 16 years watching less-experienced white agents zoom past him on the promotion ladder at the Secret Service, straight-laced Ray Moore grew so fed up in 2000 that he led a group of fellow black agents in filing a lawsuit that …
How Diversity Branding Hurts Diversity
It is painful watching tech companies known to be bad environments for women and people of color make shallow, showy attempts to rebrand themselves as valuing diversity. Perhaps you’re thinking, Any effort towards diversity is a good thing, and there’s no harm in trying, right? Wrong.
Fitbit, a leading name is the wearable fitness tracker market, has been delivered a class action lawsuit from three people on the grounds that the company’s PurePulse Trackers do not accurately monitor heart rates as advertised. The plaintiffs, Kate McLellan, Teresa Black and David Urban, each argue that the readings on their Fitbit devices were off. Black alleges in the lawsuit that in one …
Fitbit, a leading name is the wearable fitness tracker market, has been delivered a class action lawsuit from three people on the grounds that the company’s PurePulse Trackers do not accurately monitor heart rates as advertised. The plaintiffs, Kate McLellan, Teresa Black and David Urban, each argue that the readings on their Fitbit devices were off. Black alleges in the lawsuit that in one …