Future Farmers of America, 4-H, and an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. Sounds like an all-American boyhood. Well, it was, 20th-century style. The boy was Ellison Shoji Onizuka, of Kealakekua, Hawaii – a little town on the leeward side of the Big Island that was popularized in the 1933 song

" Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." – Mark Twain There are Americans all over, in all sorts of fields, who enrich us all – by not minding! Here’s a tale of one of them: All right, the boss said, if that old fellow passes the same physical exam as the

Notice Concerning the Undue Hardship Standard in Title VII Religious Accommodation Cases. This document was issued prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy, 143 S. Ct. 2279 (2023). The Groff opinion clarified that “showing ‘more than a de minimis cost’…does not suffice to establish

Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic can bring out the best and worst in people. We have seen many examples of people rising to the occasion, helping others in need, sometimes at great risk or sacrifice to themselves. Sadly, there have also been reports of mistreatment and harassment of Asian Americans

The Commission has modified the delegation of litigation authority from the Commissioners to the General Counsel, effective January 13, 2021. Background Congress, in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the Commission authority to commence or intervene in litigation against private

Post from Chair Janet Dhillon - March 2020 " I don't have a feeling of inferiority. I'm as good as anybody." Born in 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, "Hidden Figure" Katherine Johnson came of age at a time when all the signs around her told her she was inferior because of her gender and

Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, had been separated from his family as a child. He toiled as a field hand along Maryland's rural Eastern Shore. When he was 12 years old, he was sent to serve a new master in Baltimore where he worked as a house

The 15-year-old high school junior had every reason to be pleased as he boarded the bus to take him from his Atlanta home for a long journey. After all, he had won an oratorical contest sponsored by the black Elks of his community, and thus had won the right to represent Washington High School at

Post from Chair Janet Dhillon - January 2020 Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery. It is a crime involving the exploitation of people through compelled labor or a commercial sex act for illicit profit. Victims can be anyone from around the world or right next door: women and men, adults and

The Commission in 1997 adopted the Policy Statement on Mandatory Binding Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Disputes as a Condition of Employment (July 10, 1997) (Policy Statement). Since its issuance, the Supreme Court has ruled that agreements to arbitrate employment-related disputes are