discrimination

The Vermont Attorney General says she will enforce state laws protecting state residents against discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

A report released by state Attorney General Letitia James this fall shows significant racial disparities in home ownership across New York. But the city of Albany’s is nearly the worst in the nation.

In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by Kate Zernike, the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, "The Exceptions" is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission.

The new book, "Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions," is a handbook to help individuals and organizations…

The New York state legislature is approving a bill that would take away the licenses of real estate agents who engage in housing discrimination because of…

The chair of the New York Assembly Task Force on People with Disabilities is asking the state attorney general to investigate an alleged incident of…

A small group of pizzerias in Dutchess County, New York, will pay $50,000 to settle a discrimination suit. That’s according to the U.S. Equal Employment…

Keith Payne is a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an international leader in the psychology of inequality…

A civil rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit against Ulster Savings Bank, alleging discriminatory mortgage lending practices.The non-profit…

New York’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, stood with civil rights advocates Thursday, denouncing a rash of alleged hate…