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Friday, April 06, 2012  Updated with video; April is National Fair Housing Month and to kick it off the Department of Community and Economic Development is teaching residents about discrimination and new additions to the Federal and Georgia Fair Housing Acts.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012  Racial and gender discrimination are cited in an EEOC complaint by the former human resources director for the Dougherty County School System.

Saturday, February 25, 2012  A prosecutor told jurors that Dharun Ravi, now 19, spied on roommate Tyler Clementi and acted maliciously "to deprive him of his dignity."

Friday, January 20, 2012  Supreme Court ruling on church discrimination leaves educators at religious schools in limbo

Thursday, December 01, 2011  The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania filed the lawsuit for the unidentified 13-year-old boy.

Monday, June 20, 2011  Supreme Court blocks huge sex bias lawsuit by women who work at Wal-Mart

Monday, March 28, 2011  At issue in the largest job discrimination lawsuit ever against the nation's largest retailer is not the outcome, but whether the suit can move forward.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011  Obama administration presenting first US call for gay rights at the UN Human Rights Council

Tuesday, December 21, 2010  Updated with video of FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell explaining his "no" vote. A divided Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules meant to prohibit broadband companies from interfering with Internet traffic flowing to their customers.

Monday, September 13, 2010  It is two blocks from ground zero, but the site of a proposed mosque and Islamic center shouldn't be seen as "hallowed ground" in a neighborhood that also contains a strip club and a betting parlor, the cleric leading the effort said Monday.

Monday, September 13, 2010  Nine years of denouncing terrorism, of praying side-by-side with Jews and Christians, of insisting "I'm American, too." None of it could stop a season of hate against Muslims that made for an especially fraught Sept. 11.

Friday, September 10, 2010  This 9/11 is more political and contentious than the eight before it, with grieving family members on opposite sides of the mosque battle.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  The Obama administration on Tuesday weighed in against a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, with the State Department calling the plan "un-American" and officials saying it could threaten U.S. troops, diplomats and travelers overseas.

Saturday, September 04, 2010  Each time a new wave of people exited, the young Minneapolis residents — who hadn't eaten all day — tried to press into their hands a small, glossy card that read "Islam Explained" on one side.

Thursday, August 05, 2010  A judge has halted the hiring of more than 300 new firefighters amid the legal dispute over discrimination claims at the Fire Department of New York.