Discrimination

Are you white enough? Are you white enough?

From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary.
By Laura Miller Nov 10, 2008

  • Quote of the day: Backlash U.K.

    The Guardian details an "all-out assault" on feminism.
    By Lynn Harris July 2, 2008

  • Abuse and neglect

    Domestic violence occurs as often among gay couples as among hetereosexuals, according to a new study, but victims of same-sex battering do not have equal protection under the law.
    By David Tuller June 4, 2003

  • Roach motel

    Busted on a minor charge, I joined the luckless army of minorities who are crammed into jail cells every day by America's surreal war on marijuana.
    By Christopher Ketcham October 17, 2002

  • Bush's band-aid approach

    A prestigious, congressionally mandated report has found that minority Americans receive glaringly inferior medical care. The Bush response: Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day!
    By Fran Smith May 2, 2002

  • Las Vegas gym case tests "Ladies Night law"

    Do price breaks for women discriminate against men?
    By Lynn Harris December 12, 2007

  • Expanding the definition of discrimination

    The American Medical Association moves to include transgender people in its anti-discrimination policies.
    By Carol Lloyd July 19, 2007

  • Maternal profiling

    Think employers shouldn't be able to ask prospective employees about their marital or familial status? Check your state's employment laws.
    By Carol Lloyd December 21, 2006

  • What else we're reading

    Compression bras, evil handbags and other material concerns. Plus: Should Hillary Clinton drop the "Rodham"?
    By Page Rockwell October 23, 2006

  • The Supreme Court vs. discrimination

    Sheila White says her employer unfairly retaliated against her after she filed a gender-based -discrimination complaint. And the justices agree!
    By Page Rockwell June 22, 2006

  • We are "natural family"

    The Kanab, Utah, City Council adds bigotry to the area's many attractions.
    By Lynn Harris January 25, 2006

  • Religious conservatives: All women should be pregnant! Oh, except you

    Calif. fertility doctors refuse to inseminate an unmarried lesbian.
    By Lynn Harris December 7, 2005

  • Unwed, pregnant -- and fired

    The NYCLU takes up the case of an unmarried preschool teacher who was fired for being pregnant.
    By Hillary Frey November 22, 2005

  • Round up the usual suspects

    How far should ethnic profiling go in the quest to nab the World Trade Center terrorists?
    By Damien Cave September 14, 2001

  • Sneak attack

    Self-employed parents are the targets of financial aid discrimination -- and most of the time, they don't even know it.
    By David Lindorff April 25, 2001

  • A genetic death sentence

    Doctors routinely deny heart transplants to the mentally retarded.
    By Jenna Glatzer December 8, 2000

  • Losing ground

    I was a lawyer in one state, a mom without portfolio in another.
    By Patricia G. Barnes August 31, 2000

  • Choking on the velvet rope

    Ian Schrager's Mondrian Hotel pays $1 million to settle a discrimination suit after replacing minority bellmen with "cool-looking" white guys.
    By Carina Chocano August 11, 2000

  • A conversation with James Dale

    America's most famous un-Boy Scout discusses discrimination, the Supreme Court and the fight scouting taught him to fight.
    By Kera Bolonik July 17, 2000

  • Germany shuns "foreign" families

    Immigrants and their German-born children find themselves cut off from state benefits.
    By Allison Linn and Ayla Jean Yackley January 6, 2000

  • Gay refugees seek asylum in friendly South Africa

    Once a place for hate, the new and improved nation now boasts one of the most accepting constitutions in the world.
    By Hank Hyena November 8, 1999

  • Jack the vote

    At a DC Vote shindig, Kemp mingles like he means it; Patricia Arquette reinvents her breasts. And lady of the Senate? Jesse Helms, once, twice, three times a doofus. Plus: Barbara Bush thinks Pat deserves a spanking.
    By Amy Reiter October 28, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Horowitz is wrong: Cornel West is no lightweight! Plus: Coastal elitists bash Kansas "rednecks"; women hurt women in campus tenure battles.
    Letters to the Editor October 18, 1999

  • Crashing the top

    Women at elite universities may have broken the ivory ceiling, but they're still battling old-fashioned discrimination.
    By Ann Douglas October 11, 1999

  • Mothers Who Think: Scouts' dishonor

    A former member says scouting is a dangerous influence that should be kept away from impressionable young people.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 25, 1998
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