Tag: discrimination
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Lawsuits ask courts to overturn Virginia’s new policies on the treatment of transgender students
The ACLU of Virginia is suing the state Department of Education to challenge Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s policies on the treatment of transgender students
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10th Circuit agrees ex-DPS employee failed to prove retaliatory firing
The federal appeals court based in Colorado agreed last month that a former Denver Public Schools employee failed to show how her termination was connected to her act of speaking out against racial discrimination. Barbara Lindsay worked at Emily Griffith Technical College and participated in the 2019 hiring process for a new school director. She…
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Judge hears from psychologists, pre-K director in Catholic schools’ challenge to Colorado program
The director of Colorado’s universal prekindergarten program and a pair of experts in child psychology testified on Wednesday about the importance of LGBTQ inclusion as a trial continued in federal court over a constitutional challenge to the pre-K program’s non-discrimination requirements. Two Catholic institutions, St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood,…
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Federal judge begins trial on Catholic schools’ claims against Colorado preschool program
A federal judge heard arguments and testimony beginning on Tuesday over whether Colorado’s new universal pre-kindergarten program unconstitutionally forces a pair of Catholic preschools to violate their religious beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity in order to participate as providers. In August, the Archdiocese of Denver and other plaintiffs brought suit against the state,…
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Asian Americans in Colorado say enough is enough after year of pandemic-related hate
Over the last year, racist assaults on people of Asian descent have often taken the form of epithets hurled related to the COVID-19 pandemic: “Go back to China!” “You brought the flu!” “I’m out of work because of you!” Other times, the attacks have crossed into physical assault. Around the Denver metro area, those incidents…
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Protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia capital
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A small group of demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate general in the the former capital of the Confederacy late Saturday, following a day of largely peaceful protests in the Virginia city. The statue of Gen. Williams Carter Wickham was pulled from its pedestal in Monroe Park, a Richmond police…