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Residents in a Louisiana community, known as “Cancer Alley,” have filed a federal lawsuit against St. James Parish, calling decisions to put petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods racist as they demand new plants be banned. Photo courtesy of Denka Performance Elastomer LLC March 21 (UPI) — Residents in a Louisiana community known as “Cancer Alley” […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 1992 federal court agreement that led to a Black justice being elected to Louisiana’s once all-white Supreme Court is no longer needed and should be dissolved, an assistant to the state’s attorney general told a federal appeals court Monday. The case pits Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is running […]
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, said it was suing ExxonMobil after several nooses were discovered at the company’s complex in Baton Rouge, La. The EEOC said ExxonMobil failed to take action after a Black employee discovered a noose at his work station at the chemical plant in January 2020. At the […]
The federal government filed an employment discrimination lawsuit in Louisiana on Friday against Exxon Mobil after investigating a Black employee’s complaint that nooses had been found at a Baton Rouge, La., refinery complex. The lawsuit said that the company created a hostile work environment for the employee, Milferd McGhee, and other workers by failing to […]
The US government sued Exxon Mobil Corp. for racial discrimination against a Black employee after the company allegedly failed to adequately respond to the appearance of five hangman’s nooses at a Louisiana petrochemical plant over several years. Exxon “failed to take prompt measures reasonably calculated to end the harassment,” the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
A Black woman can pursue her race discrimination lawsuit over being passed over for a principal position at a Louisiana elementary school in favor of a White man with no administrative experience, the Fifth Circuit said Thursday. Esther Watson provided evidence from which a jury could decide that she was clearly more qualified than Scott […]
A review of the body camera footage from that night shows Mr. Bagley opening the door while holding a bottle of liquor. Mr. Bagley at first declined to let officers into the apartment but then told them he would need to put his dog away. He then walked down a hallway into a bedroom and […]
(CNN) A Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer was arrested Thursday on a charge of negligent homicide in the fatal shooting earlier this month of Alonzo Bagley, an unarmed Black man, Louisiana State Police said. Officer Alexander Tyler made his initial appearance in court, where a Louisiana State Police investigator told the judge that body camera footage […]
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