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...Ledbetter sued her employer, and a federal jury awarded her $3.8 million in damages in 2003, later reduced to $300,000 by a judge. But Goodyear appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. The employer's case: While the Civil Rights Act forbade pay discrimination on the basis of race, gender or religion, the act held that employees must lodge a formal complaint within 180 days of the initial discriminatory paycheck. According to the law, Ledbetter needed to have sued within six months of her being hired-never mind that it took her nearly 20 years to learn...
...minority group have varied significantly and influenced each people differently. Unlike any other minority group in the states, black Americans endured 300 years of slavery. The early 1900s were highlighted by the highest number of lynchings and murders of blacks in America’s history. Even after the civil rights era, police brutality in the inner cities instigated city-wide race riots...
...other citizens and the government show a minority group impacts the respect they hold for themselves concerning their worth and ability. Danielle Allen elaborates in her book “Talking to Strangers,” explaining that when a group is forced to constantly compromise not simply their civil and natural rights, but their dignity as well, a deep-rooted sense of distrust and hopelessness develops within the group, ultimately leading many to withdraw socially and politically from society...
...President Faust, for example, imagined herself at the vanguard of a new era in civil rights. “As a civil war historian in particular,” she cannot but help “think about what military service meant to African Americans.” Thus, a policy that bars the right of homosexuals openly to serve in the military is a “badge of degradation and second-class citizenship.” With such stakes, President Faust cannot fathom keeping her silence...
...military interest in Somalia dates back to the early years of the civil war that has raged since 1991 - on October 3, 1993, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in the "Blackhawk Down" fiasco that befell an operation aimed at capturing a key Mogadishu warlord whose forces had imperiled a U.N. humanitarian mission. More recently, however, the focus has been on terrorism, and particularly on Ayro as he rose up the chain of command in al-Qaeda's East African operations. Although reports were sketchy, security sources suspected his involvement in a number of assassinations, including the death of four foreign...