African Americans
To increase diversity of programming, Comcast plans 10 new channels and Fox forms Fox Hispanic Media
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 12:17To satisfy commitments made to win approval of its merger with NBC Universal, Comcast Corp. yesterday announced plans for 10 new independent channels, to be launched over the next eight years, with African-American, American-Latino or Hispanic majority owners or operators, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. The first channel, scheduled to launch July 2012, will be American-Latino operated; two other majority African-American owned channels should launch by January 2013, WSJ reported.
Big Lots Settles Latino-on-Black Discrimination Charges
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 00:00On February 18, a U.S. district court judge approved a consent decree involving Big Lots discount stores in which Latino workers were found to have discriminated against and harassed some African-American em
Judge’s Race or Gender Makes Difference
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:07Two studies find that a judge's race or gender makes a dramatic difference in the outcome of cases they hear, at least for cases in which race and gender allegedly play a role in the conduct of the parties.
Immigration Changes Ideas about Race, According to Latest Census Data
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 11:07New census data on America’s foreign-born population “are challenging conventional views of immigration, race and ethnicity,” according to the New Yor
