Discrimination

A court ruled last year that Lisa Benson was retaliated against by her former employer, but stopped short of saying she was discriminated against because of her race. Benson hopes the ordeal has forced the 41 Action News team "to confront their racial bias."

The COVID-19 pandemic is introducing new challenges to the American tradition of going away for college, how an extended tax filing deadline is affecting tax payers and professionals, and a former 41 Action News reporter describes what led her to sue the media outlet.

Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver talks about the pain felt by African Americans in a year of pandemic and protests against police brutality.

Gay and transgender Americans can no longer have their employment terminated on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That decision was delivered June 15 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Unified Government's top doctor provides an update on progress curbing the pandemic in Wyandotte County, and analysis of the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in a Title VII case and how employers and workers in Kansas and Missouri will be affected by that landmark decision on employment discrimination.

As Kansas City deals with nightly protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died last week at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, many white folks are wondering what they can do to help.

Experts give advice on how white people can be good allies during racial unrest, and how a black female comedian finds humor during trying times.

For gay men in Kansas City who lived through the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the threat of COVID-19 is eerily familiar. That comes with anxiety and grief,…

Kansas City is becoming more welcoming for black women who want to start their own businesses.Adrienne Haynes, the managing partner at the business law…

Segment 1: How Title IX applies to transgender students.With the background of a couple of court cases currently in progress, a KU law professor has…

The University of Kansas has settled an age discrimination suit brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year after an employee…

Segment 1: What is a non-disclosure agreement? After Sen. Elizabeth Warren publicly questioned fellow Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's…