Category: Discrimination
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DeSantis war on ‘woke’ leads to faculty brain drain at Florida public universities
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Campuses at Florida public universities are experiencing an exodus of faculty members, while out-of-state professors searching for new jobs are saying “no thanks” to working in the Sunshine State under the rule of Gov. Ron DeSantis. -
Black-run Miramar pays $565,000 to settle charges of reverse discrimination by trio of white ex-police officers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar’s city commission has agreed to pay $565,000 to settle a five-year-old lawsuit brought by a trio of senior white city police officers who claimed they were illegally denied promotions by a black police chief who wanted to “have his command staff mirror” Miramar’s majority minority population. -
Audit, emotional testimony air failures of Broward County office that probes sexual harassment, discrimination and other wrongdoing
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Broward County office that investigates whistleblower, discrimination, sexual harassment, and other complaints of alleged wrongdoing is a mess, the county’s independent auditor has found. -
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The color of debt: How collection suits squeeze black neighborhoods
By Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman
ProPublica
On a recent afternoon, the new African-American mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Jennings, population 15,000, looked at a computer list of every debt collection lawsuit against a resident of her city – at least 4,500 in just five years. She saw the names of many of her neighbors. Then she saw her own name.
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