Six current and former African American employees working at a steel mill in Arkansas sued a company for racial discrimination. The judge ruled in favor of both parties for separate claims, and at trial, the plaintiffs were awarded a monetary compensation. Nevertheless, both sides contested the ruling.
The Nucor Corporation is a steel manufacturing company with [...]
Courthouse News Service
- A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn’t let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court.
Kymberly Wimberly, 18, got only a single B in [...]
Three men have been indicted on civil rights charges for allegedly burning a cross at the home of a black man in northeast Arkansas.
U.S. Attorney for the state’s Eastern District Jane Duke says the cross was set aflame at on Aug. 28 at a home in Salado. Duke says 22-year-old James Bradley Branscum and 24-year-old [...]
African-American voters couldn’t help the man who became the nation’s first black president win Arkansas in 2008. But the Democratic candidates for the Senate here, incumbent Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, believe black voters could decide their race, and both are waging an unusually intense campaign in the black community in the final [...]
SETH BLOMELEY, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
- Rep. Richard Carroll of North Little Rock, Arkansas’ only Green Party legislator, asked to be a member of the Arkansas Black Legislative Caucus but was rejected because he’s white.
On Monday, Carroll participated in a meeting of the caucus at the state Capitol, stating his thoughts on proposed legislation. But there [...]
