Lawsuit alleges US government discriminated against Black veterans for decades
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 4, 2022
A lawsuit filed Monday claims the U.S. government has long discriminated against Black military veterans, a pattern that has led them to miss out on housing and education benefits disproportionately compared to their white peers.
The suit, brought by Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic (VLSC) on behalf of Vietnam War veteran Conley Monk Jr., asserts that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denied Monk’s applications for education, housing and disability benefits for “decades.”
The clinic contends the lawsuit could “provide a legal pathway for Black veterans to seek reparations from . . .
