Late activist Evelin Cruz: “Instead of helping people come out of poverty, they perpetuate it with the wages that they pay.”

Hundreds of the company’s Michigan-based employees are preparing to strike in response to its handling of gender-based discrimination allegations.

Around the country, current and former employees who have filed EEOC complaints against Verizon Wireless are going public with their stories. They allege overt and subtle racism, retaliation and intimidation by the nation’s largest wireless provider. 

SCOTUS to consider three cases that cite the protections afforded by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno” tells the forgotten story of America’s first woman to organize farm workers into a union.

A new Color of Change petition says: “Across America, Black people are policed, humiliated and even sent home because employers and peers want to control our expression. We won bills that end hair discrimination in two states, and now we are fighting to end it across the nation.”

The bill, which now heads to the Senate for a vote, seeks to gradually double the federal minimum wage to $15 for all hourly workers, including those who are paid via tips.

A new bill aims to protect sex workers, particularly immigrant and trans workers of color.

A New York Times article examines how the success of the state’s agricultural industry is polluting the water of the people who work in it.

“Nailed It” explores the industry’s history and connection to the Vietnamese-American community.

Former head of diversity Whitney Davis writes that the company is “fraught with systemic racism, discrimination and sexual harassment.”

The ACLU and the Leadership Conference Education Fund urge the Office of Personnel Management to remove job application questions that they say would negatively impact people with arrest records.

A new study says the artificial intelligence industry—which is overwhelmingly populated by White people and men—is due for a reckoning.

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Saru Jayaraman and Destiny Lopez connect the dots between securing increased pay for women earning a tipped wage and improved access to reproductive health care.

Denver Classroom Teachers Association president Henry Roman: “This is just a scare tactic to intimidate our immigrant educators.”

Not only can the city force companies to rehire employers who were let go due to this racial discrimination, but it can also levy penalties up to $250,000.

Researchers predict that an estimated 3,000 people will die from high temperatures by 2050, and people of color are more vulnerable than their White counterparts.

This group of workers—many of whom are of undocumented status—have to choose between asking for help from FEMA and being deported by ICE.