A black former factory worker at Tesla recently faced a setback in his race discrimination lawsuit against the company. The worker, Owen Diaz, had attempted to secure a third trial by accusing Tesla’s lawyers of misconduct during the previous trials, but a California federal judge rejected his claims. US District Judge William Orrick upheld the …
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking legal action against Elon Musk’s Tesla for alleged “widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees” and retaliation against those who speak up. The federal lawsuit, filed on Thursday and reported by the Wall Street Journal, claims that racial misconduct at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California …
In the past two years, Reuben A. Buford May, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has spent a considerable amount of time waiting in long lines at various nightclubs in Chicago. However, there’s one thing he has noticed during his experiences: the cover charges he’s asked to pay are not consistent. …
US Civil Rights Agency Sues Tesla Over Harassment of Black Employees The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Tesla, accusing the electric carmaker of tolerating severe harassment of black employees at its flagship Fremont, California assembly plant. The EEOC claims that Tesla has allowed racist slurs and graffiti, including swastikas …
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Tesla, accusing the electric-vehicle giant of racially discriminating against its Black employees and creating a hostile work environment based on race. The lawsuit centers on incidents that have allegedly occurred at Tesla’s manufacturing facilities in Fremont, California since May 2015. The EEOC is …
In a perplexing turn of events, a Black high school student in Texas was recently suspended for violating the district’s dress code, despite the state outlawing racial discrimination based on hairstyles. According to the AP, Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, was given an in-school suspension because his …
Ole Miss defensive tackle DeSanto Rollins is filing a lawsuit against the university and head football coach Lane Kiffin, alleging that his rights were violated during a mental health crisis. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday, Rollins claims that he was removed from the team due to a “mental impairment,” violating the …
Four years ago, The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, a series of essays aiming to place “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative,” sparked heated debate. Some criticisms of the essays were substantive, others less so. The backlash, however, has endured long after …
Optimizing End-of-Life Planning for Black Americans | Undark Magazine Optimizing End-of-Life Planning for Black Americans This article originally appeared in Undark Magazine. When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have to help families make gut-wrenching decisions for a loved one who was very ill or about …
In the wake of the tragic killing of three Black Floridians by a suspected white supremacist in Jacksonville, Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to deliver a unifying message. However, his words were met with skepticism and booing from the crowd at a vigil for the victims. This reaction could be attributed to DeSantis’s history of opposing …