By Ben FinleyThe Associated Press PARKSLEY, Va. (AP) — A married couple who fled Haiti for Virginia achieved their American dream when they opened a variety market on the Eastern Shore, selling hard-to-find spices, sodas and rice to the region’s growing Haitian community. When they added a Haitian food truck, people drove from an hour […]
Tag: Lawsuit
Posted inCivil Rights
A Texas school’s punishment of a Black student who wears his hair in locs is going to trial
By Juan LozanoThe Associated Press ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A judge ordered Jan. 24 that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state […]
Posted inEducation
 A woman was hired to investigate racial harassment after a suicide. Then she encountered it herself
By Hannah SchoenbaumThe Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints the year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials. Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District’s equal […]
Posted inENVIRONMENT
Federal judge tosses lawsuit alleging environmental racism in St. James Parish
The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a south Louisiana parish of using land use policies to guide industries that pollute into communities with majority-Black populations. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District of Louisiana tossed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, saying that […]
Posted inPrince George's County News
Murphy Law Firm files $16 million lawsuit alleging civil rights violations by Prince George’s County Police DepartmentÂ
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO Contributing Editor, dailey@afro.com Four Landover Hills, Md. residents filed a lawsuit against Prince George’s County police on Nov. 27, seeking $16 million in damages after alleging police unlawfully entered the premises during a 2021 encounter with the residents. The incident included the shooting of a dog. Erica Umana, Erika Erazo Sanchez, […]
Posted inNational News
Ohio businessman sues Norfolk Southern Railway for damages after train derailment and chemical spill
By Helen Bezuneh, Special to the AFRO When Ohio businessman Edwin Wang got word about a train derailing directly behind one of his business properties in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, he couldn’t have imagined that the end result would be so tragic. “I got a phone call from the alarm company and they […]
Posted inNational News
Ohio businessman sues Norfolk Southern Railway for derailed train’s damage to his businesses
By Helen BezunehSpecial to the AFRO When Ohio businessman Edwin Wang got word about a train derailing directly behind one of his business properties in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, he couldn’t have imagined that the end result would be so tragic. “I got a phone call from the alarm company and they said, […]