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Mobs Leave Charred Corpses, Fear in North Nigeria
By not in system - AOL NewsKADUNA, Nigeria -- The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in Kaduna after results showed Nigeria's Christian leader beat his closest Muslim opponent in Saturday's vote. Reprisal attacks by Christians began almost immediately, with one mob allegedly tearing a home apart to look for a Quran to prove the occupants were Muslims before ...
Calif. Debates Place of Gay History in Textbooks
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- California conservatives were outraged in 1966 when the state Board of Education adopted a new junior high school history textbook. The book's inclusive treatment of the civil rights movement and influential black Americans would indoctrinate students, undermine religious values and politicize the curriculum, they said. Forty-five years later, gay rights advocates say similar arguments are being advanced to defeat a bill that would make the state the first to require the teaching of gay history in public schools. The California Senate approved the landmark measure ...
New Jersey Transgender Man Says Firing Was Discriminatory
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsEl'Jai Devoureau wants to be treated just like any other man. The 39-year-old New Jersey resident was born into a woman's body but says he's known from the very beginning that he is male. Apparently, though, Devoureau wasn't man enough for his former employer: The drug treatment center where he worked watching men urinate fired him from after finding out that he was transgendered. The center only hires men to monitor other men taking their drug tests. Now, Devoureau, who had sex-change surgery five years ago, is suing the center for discrimination, a suit some legal experts say is the first ...
Arizona Bans Abortions Based on Sex, Race [VIDEO]
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NY Fashion Exec Sues for $2 Million After Transfer to New Jersey
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA senior manager at the New York fashion house Elie Tahari claims he had a mental breakdown after being forced to travel to New Jersey for work and is suing the company for $2 million. Thomas Horodecki says he was discriminated against by his Israeli bosses and passed over for promotions at work because he was Christian and Polish. But the New York fashion executive says the company took the alleged discrimination a bridge too far when it banished him to franchises in New Jersey after he complained. In an interview with the New York Post, Horodecki, 36, says his weekly trips to New Jersey ...
Opinion: Refuse to Hire Smokers? What's Next?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe latest trend in legalized discrimination is against health care workers who smoke, as The New York Times points out in a recent article. It's totally understandable for a hospital not to allow smoking on its property. After all, the property belongs to the hospital, and many hospitals are "public." As a proponent of property rights, I'd agree that only the owners of a property should be able to make that decision. Another View on Hiring Smokers Why Not Discriminate Against Smokers? -- Jacob Sullum, senior editor, Reason magazine And it's understandable for ...
Michele Bachmann Schooled by Anderson Cooper on Eve of Her State of the Union Rebuttal [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsMinnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has strong views on U.S. history. And according to CNN's Anderson Cooper, many of them are factually incorrect. On his Monday broadcast, Cooper zeroed in on Bachmann's recent remarks about diversity in America, in which she claimed that language differences and skin color "didn't matter" in the early days of our democracy and that America's founding fathers -- many of whom were slave Related Stories State of the Union Address [LIVE FEED] owners -- "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States." "As good as that ...
Israel Fears Another 'Anti-Semitic' UN Conference on Racism
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsNearly every nation in the world agrees that racism, in general, is a bad thing. What keeps the world from joining forces to tackle the problem is a bitter disagreement over definitions of racism, specifically when talking about Israel, and that doesn't look likely to change anytime soon. Israel said over the weekend that it will likely boycott a United Nations conference on combating racism set for September after the U.N. General Assembly decided to bill the meeting as another follow-up to the first U.N. racism conference held 10 years earlier in Durban, South Africa. That Durban meeting ...
Opinion: Does Affirmative Action Help College Students?
By not in system - AOL NewsAll across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school that has accepted them -- even if their race, athletic prowess or rich uncle helped them get in. But according to a December report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, that may be a mistaken strategy -- at least for students hoping for a degree in science or engineering. The extensive research compiled in that report concludes that accepting an affirmative action leg-up probably hurts a ...
EEOC Accuses Kaplan Higher Ed of Race Discrimination
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Kaplan Higher Education, a division of The Washington Post Co., claiming the company has violated the Civil Rights Act since at least 2008. The lawsuit, filed in a Cleveland federal court Tuesday, says that Kaplan discriminated against black job applicants by taking credit histories into consideration when making employment decisions. "This practice has an unlawful discriminatory impact because of race and is neither job-related nor justified by business necessity," the EEOC said in a statement. The agency argues that credit reports ...
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