By The Editors
The agency’s year-end report for fiscal year 2011 documents startling improvements in awards won for individual victims of discrimination, and from the reinvigorated pursuit of “systemic” cases intended to eliminate broad discriminatory practices within a company.

By The Editors
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, charging that it has used credit history reports to discriminate against black job applicants.

After years fighting for justice, qualified African-American job applicants will finally have a fair opportunity to land a job with the Chicago fire department. Today the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the City of Chicago can be held accountable for each and every time it used a hiring practice that arbitrarily blocked qualified minority applicants from employment.

By The Editors
Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, the eight-year-old gender-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, the largest civil rights class-action in history, will reach another critical point on March 24 when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments on whether the current and former women employees suing the giant discount retailer can legally be called a class.