Francis Gomez, 26, said she was fired without warning from a Taco Bell in Queens after she swore at a delivery driver who was harassing her.Credit…Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times New York City’s fast-food industry has served as a laboratory for the nation’s labor movement for the last several years. Its workers were the…
Slave cemetery discovered under Florida country club opens old wounds
Delaitre Hollinger, the immediate past president of the Tallahassee branch of the NAACP, visits the Capital City Country Club in Tallahassee, Fla., on Dec. 17. The discovery this month of 40 graves _ with perhaps dozens more yet to be found _ has spawned discussion about how to dignify the souls who lay in eternal…
Police Obtain Warrant for Ancestry.com DNA Database
Photo: Shutterstock A Pennsylvania court gave law enforcement officers access to the world’s largest DNA database in the world. We don’t really know when this happened or why the cops wanted the data. Ancestry.com, however, refused to comply with the warrant and the issue hasn’t really been settled so…I’m sure everything will work out.
Body camera video shows police officer arresting sobbing 6-year-old
The child had zip put around her wrists as she cried and pleaded to be let go. Newly released police body-camera video shows an officer in Orlando, Florida, arresting a 6-year-old girl who had zip ties put around her wrists at her school as she cried to be let go.
Most Americans Don’t Know Puerto Ricans Are American
The territory’s residents have held citizenship for nearly a century. Alvin Baez / Reuters The poll found just 43 percent of Americans knew the citizenship status of Puerto Ricans. Fewer than half of Americans know Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, a new poll shows. The results reflect a stark reality about the nation’s awareness of the…
Black Model Calls Out ‘Racist’ Accessories In New York Fashion Show
In a time when fashion has been under fire for racist campaigns that have led to boycotts, re: Gucci blackface sweater, the hope would be that extra measures are taken to ensure that those instances do not continue to happen. However, it appears that New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology has placed itself in…
