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Latino Utility Worker: I Was Fired After Stranger Claimed Cracking My Knuckles Was Sign of ‘White Power’

A former San Diego Gas and Electric employee, Emmanuel Cafferty was followed by a stranger who took a photo of Cafferty while his arm hung out the window of his company truck. The picture got posted on Twitter, along with the allegation Cafferty was making a “white power” hand gesture of white supremacists. Cafferty claims …

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Nursing Student Expelled For Essay Based on True Life Case Deemed ‘Insensitive’

A nursing student at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Kaylyn Willis was expelled after writing an essay about a shooting that administrators labeled “insensitive.”  Each week, her professor instructed students to use “critical imagining” to write and post online a story from the perspective of a person suffering from a chronic disease or disorder. For …

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Air Force Reserve Officer Claims She was Fired For Seeking Religious Exemption to COVID Vaccine

An Air Force Reserve officer, Lt. Col. Brandi King filed a discrimination complaint against the military’s COVID-19 inoculation requirement, alleging she was fired from her job in the service chief’s diversity office for seeking a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate. King told the press that over a period of weeks, “her superiors badgered her …

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Georgetown Suspends Professor Who Questioned Biden’s Racial Preference for SCOTUS Pick

A newly hired lecturer at Georgetown Law, Ilya Shaprio was put on leave after posting multiple tweets about Biden’s promise to select a black woman for the U.S. Supreme Court. In one of the tweets, Shapiro said Biden “would nominate not ‘the objectively best pick’ but a ‘lesser Black woman’ to be the next Supreme …

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Editor of Prestigious Medical Journal Forced Out Because Staffer Questioned Systemic Racism

Imagine being fired because of something somebody else said. Dr. Howard Bauchner, then editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Bauchner was forced to resign for a comment on racism made by another JAMA editor in a since-deleted podcast. The other JAMA editor said “Structural racism is an unfortunate term. Personally, I think …

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Disabled Dairy Farmer Sues Biden Over COVID Loan Funds Excluding White Farmers

A disabled, Wisconsin dairy farmer with two prosthetic legs, Adam Faust is suing the Biden administration over a COVID-19 loan forgiveness program. Faust alleges it is racist because whites aren’t eligible. Faust’s  a white resident of Chilton, Wisc., filed a lawsuit stating: “Were plaintiffs eligible for the loan forgiveness benefit, they would have the opportunity …

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COVID-19 Business Relief Funds Withheld from Latina Businesswoman in Oregon

A Latina businesswoman in Oregon, Maria Garcia filed a lawsuit alleging the Oregon Legislature Emergency Board acted unconstitutionally when it declared that $62 million of a $200 million government fund to help small businesses hit by COVID-19 could only go to black-owned businesses or black families. Garcia, owner of a business called Revolución Coffee, had …

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Jewish Woman Forced Out of Writers Group for Failing to Mention Islamophobia

A black Jewish woman who served as inclusion officer at the world’s leading children’s book writer’s group, April Powers was forced out after she didn’t mention Islamophobia in an article she wrote about rising cases of criminal antisemitism. Powers had been Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators …

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