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Ontario’s 2-tier minimum wage: As discriminatory now as it was in the 1990s
by Steven High, Professor of History, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), Concordia University October 10, 2023 Thirty years later, young people in Ontario are still paying the price: 95 cents an hour, to be precise. The province of Ontario has increased its minimum wage to $16.55 per hour — unless workers are students under the…
Read MoreEli Lilly to Pay $2.4 Million to Settle Age-Discrimination Suit — Update
By Will Feuer On October 12, 2023 Eli Lilly has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle an age-discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Lilly denied positions to pharmaceutical sales representative applicants due to the company’s “Early Career” hiring initiative, the EEOC’s lawsuit alleged. The initiative, which was in place from…
Read MoreSocial media disinformation spreads amid war in Israel
By Jo Ling Kent and Kerry Breen On October 14, 2023 As the war in Israel and Gaza plays out in real time on social media, experts say bad information and propaganda are spreading on X, formerly known as Twitter. Alethea, a research group, said that they had detected a network of at least 67 accounts on the…
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Federal judge rules Galveston County commissioner maps violate Voting Rights Act
Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, found the county districts denied Black and Latino voters “the equal opportunity to participate in the political process.” By Caroline Wilburn On October 13, 2023 A U.S. District Judge ruled Friday that Galveston County violated the federal Voting Rights Act in 2021 when it drew new districts for…
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AP Exclusive: America’s Black attorneys general discuss race, politics and the justice system
By Matt Brown On December 1, 2023 BOSTON (AP) — The American legal system is facing a crisis of trust in communities around the country, with people of all races and across the political spectrum. For many, recent protests against police brutality called attention to longstanding discrepancies in the administration of justice. For others, criticism of perceived conflicts of…
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Majority of Flint residents support reparations for Black Americans, CRJ survey shows
By Lauren Slagter On November 7, 2023 More than half of Flint residents favor reparations for Black Americans, although levels of support vary depending on whether the proposal refers to reparations as a broad concept or specific reparative policies like cash payments or financial support for housing and education. A new report from the University…
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The Critical Need to Teach the History of Mass Incarceration
By Benjamin Weber On November 20, 2023 Beneath the bluster over what’s taught in schools is a struggle over the future of justice itself. Pressure to remove topics like mass incarceration from school curricula in places like Florida and from the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American History course reveals precisely why we must continue teaching it. Those…
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Detroit Public Library cardholders can do more than just borrow books
By David Rodriguez Muñoz On December 1, 2023 Matthew Scheich, a technical training associate, leads a genealogy researching class inside the Detroit Public Library Redford Branch in Detroit on Nov. 21, 2023. The Finding Your Roots class teaches library members how to use an online database through the Detroit Public Library to research their ancestry.…
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Detroit board members consider ambitious approach for student literacy growth
By Ethan Bakuli On November 7, 2023 With $94 million earmarked for the Detroit school district to improve student reading levels in the next three years, district board members are eager to see that money spent toward ambitious ideas to grow literacy awareness across the city. At a retreat for the Detroit Public Schools Community…
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