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Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate reports that phone and cable companies are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet and on cell phones. Complete Story...
Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged "delaying" some subscriber Internet traffic, but said any roadblocks it puts up are temporary and intended to improve surfing for other users.
To test claims by users that Comcast Corp. was blocking some forms of file-sharing traffic, The Associated Press went to the Bible.
The women at the center of a lawsuit against Bloomberg LP filed a complaint Wednesday alleging that Michael Bloomberg, the city's mayor, has "fostered, condoned and perpetuated" discrimination against female employees at his financial information company.
The three women at the center of a lawsuit filed by the federal government against Bloomberg LP are not the first to accuse the financial information company founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of discrimination.
Congressional Democrats said Wednesday they would try to reverse a Supreme Court decision that limits the time that workers have to sue their employers for pay discrimination.
Ellen Frankel stands just 4-foot-8 1/2 inches tall, a size that allowed larger co-workers to playfully scoop her up at the office and make remarks about her height. Some even patted her on the head.
A Harvard University professor who accused the school of gender discrimination has withdrawn her resignation, but said Thursday that the school's landscape architecture department remains a bastion of sexism.
Employees must complain about pay discrimination within six months or forfeit their claim, the Supreme Court was told Monday in a case closely watched by companies and civil rights groups.
Rose Rock, the mother of comedian Chris Rock, claims she was racially discriminated against when she was seated but ignored for a half hour at a Cracker Barrel restaurant along the South Carolina coast.
The federal government sued Denny's restaurants Thursday, alleging that a manager who had a leg amputated was wrongly fired because her superiors believed she posed a safety risk.
The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday for workers to show they suffered retaliation after accusing employers of discrimination.
Japan needs a broad anti-discrimination law to help stop rampant violations of the human rights of minorities and foreigners, minority activists said Tuesday.
A federal lawsuit accuses the online site Craigslist of violating fair housing laws by publishing discriminatory classified ads, reviving the question of what legal boundaries, if any, should exist for postings on the Internet.
The poster of a baby wearing a wristband labelled "homosexual" in an advertising campaign against homophobia has sparked a row in Italy.
...A simple appearance on "The Tonight Show" to plug her new movie "Things We Lost in the Fire" turned disastrous for Halle Berry after a joke she told was viewed as anti-Semitic...
Negative recruiting" in college sports can refer to a coach's criticism of a competing school. But in women's sports it focuses on an opposing coach's sexual orientation so often that an organized response to the problem is now underway.
The city has decided that the Boy Scouts chapter here must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts. The organization's Cradle of Liberty Council, which currently pays $1 a year in rent, must pay the increa …
In his book, Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews, Giladi discusses the crimes committed by Zionists in their frenzy to import raw Jewish labor.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office has asked New York City's Law Department to reduce the fee for registering a domestic partnership from $36 to $35, the fee charged straight couples for a marriage license, the New York Times reported.
Senator Barack Obama said the leader of the civil rights division of the Justice Department should step down after comments about elderly minority voters.
Philadelphia officials have decided the Boy Scouts chapter must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts.
Haiti is the least developed country in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the poorest. More than half its population is unemployed and 70 per cent rely on the land for food and income.
When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system.
September 11 was the beginning of a new era. Like every era, a new enemy was created, subjected to discrimination. "Racial profiling had a new poster boy: he was young, Arab and Muslim."
Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) rebuked a Justice Department voting official Friday night who said Ohio's African American voters faced long lines in the 2004 presidential election because blacks tend to vote at night.
Women have been thrown out of men's bathrooms, men who identify as women have been thrown out of women's bathrooms and, of course, men have been known to get into trouble in men's rooms.
When one of the poorest, least fancied teams in professional baseball suddenly races out of nowhere and qualifies for the World Series playoffs, you might call it, well, a miracle.
Social scientists have studied it, lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math, science and engineering fields.
A noose was hung on the door of a black professor's office at Columbia University Teacher's College yesterday.
Ten white farmers appeared in court in Zimbabwe yesterday accused of growing crops on their land — in a country where millions of people will need food aid within the next few months.
The African community in the south-west New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga says it has faced abuse since federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said African refugees were slow to integrate.
This comes to me from three different producers, so I know it's real: Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead".
An extreme right-wing party has turned Switzerland's election campaign into a debate on immigration.
Now they have a white man to blame for Isiah's actions. It may well be true though.
The first generation of openly gay Americans chalked up a lot of firsts -- a gay-rights march in Washington, openly gay politicians in national office and out-of-the-closet actors on sitcoms.
With ENDA once again in sight, gays and lesbians have, in so many words, been asked to leave their transgender brothers and sisters behind in order to "get theirs." The infighting ensues.
According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States—with five percent of the world's population—houses 25 percent of the world's inmates. We have a corrections sector that employs more Americans than the combined work f …
To say that ending legal discrimination on the basis of sexuality somehow provides queer and transgender people with special rights is ludicrous. ...
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