Reporting on civil rights enforcement, federal policy rollbacks and the court cases shaping voting, housing and equal protection in the United States.
Unlike the era Parts 1 through 4 covered, when this series found no surviving written company policy on race, AT&T today publishes its own detailed workforce demographic data every year — in a standardized federal report every company of its size has to file. Part 9 of a 12-part series, covering 2000s to 2022.
1 new documented incidents of white-nationalist activity, mapped and linked to the reporting.
Yusef Jackson, president and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, joined leaders of the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC) and AFL-CIO to announce a new southern strategy combining major faith, labor and civil rights organizations determined to impact the U.S. midterm elections in November by ensuring vulnerable groups are registered and get to the polls.
CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — A Black firefighter says he found a noose tied around a training mannequin in his own fire station, then got interrogated for reporting it.
The federal consent decree that reshaped AT&T’s hiring had already run its course by 1979 — and five years later, the single company that decree applied to no longer existed at all. Part 8 of a 12-part series, covering 1979 to 1984.
3 new documented incidents of white-nationalist activity, mapped and linked to the reporting.
Minorities’ share of AT&T management jobs nearly doubled in the five years after the 1973 consent decree — and the unions representing the company’s own workers sued to try to block the settlement in the first place. Part 7 of a 12-part series, covering 1973 to 1979.
0 new documented incidents of white-nationalist activity, mapped and linked to the reporting.