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Black Employee Subjected to Makeshift Dummy ‘Hanging’ From A Beam
Islip officials are investigating a Halloween prank in which a town employee hung a masked dummy from a roof beam at a Central Islip parks maintenance shop. The effigy upset at least one African-American town employee, who reported it to police but...
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A Black Hotel Cook Sues Employer Midtown Hotel for $25 Million...
Julius Jones says working at The Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan is no picnic. Jones, who is African American, said that he started working at the hotel in November 2008 and endured violent behavior and offensive language from some white...
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Federal Judge Denies City’s Request to Delay Creating A New FDNY...
A federal judge denied the city's request for an extension to create a new Fire Department entrance exam that doesn't discriminate against minority-group candidates. Read...
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NYPD Auto Crime Unit Promotions Rare for Hispanics
Joseph Rivera alleges that Hispanic employees assigned to the Auto Crime Division of the Police Department City of New York aka NYPD were not afforded opportunities to be promoted past Detective Third Grade, while other similarly situated Caucasian...
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Black employee slams ASPCA brush off after finding Hangman’s Noose’ in...
Black employee slams ASPCA brush off after finding "Hangman's Noose' in the workplace. Read more Read more Read more Read more here:...
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Hempstead Police Official: I’m being forced to quit
Willie R. Dixon, until recently the second-in-command of Hempstead Village’s police department, plans to retire on July 22 — the result, he says, of being stripped of his rank. Dixon, who spent about 30 years on the force, was not reappointed...
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