The academy. It claims to stand for inclusiveness and diversity and voices of dissent. But what happens when students decide to vote with their feet—their bare feet—and a professor calls those students "hillbillies"? Well sir, you've got a discrimination problem.

A man is suing a Baltimore community college, claiming the school rejected him from one of its programs because he mentioned God during an admission interview.

Madelynn Taylor, 74, served six years in the Navy. Madelynn Taylor grew up with the woman she would eventually marry in Oregon, in 1995. Madelynn Taylor is welcome to be buried in the veterans' cemetery in Idaho, where she now lives. But not with her now-deceased spouse, thanks to an anti-gay state law.

Every kiss may begin with Kay, but now a ton of sexual discrimination lawsuits are beginning with Sterling, the largest retail jewelry company in the country.

Twenty four veterans were awarded a Medal of Honor today after a Pentagon review found they were passed over the first time around because of their diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Is Arizona set to become an "anti-gay Jim Crow" state? A week after Kansas nearly made law a bill proposing to legalize discrimination against gays on the basis of freedom of religion, a similar bill passed in Arizona last night, leaving Governor Jan Brewer five days to decide where to go from here.

The Arizona Senate voted in favor of a measure that would allow business owners the right to refuse gays service based on religious beliefs. "This bill is not about discrimination," Sen. Steve Yarbrough said. "It's about preventing discrimination against people who are clearly living out their faith." Related.

A Southern California man was beaten, Tasered and burned by local cops who thought he was threatening them and didn't realize he was gesturing that he was deaf, according to a discrimination lawsuit he's filed in federal court.

First, the good news: A bill approved Wednesday by the Kansas House of Representatives by a vote of 72 to 49 that would allow for Jim Crow-style anti-gay discrimination seems unlikely to pass even in the Republican-controlled Senate, according to Senate President Susan Wagle.

The owner of an Oklahoma restaurant is under fire after a customer claimed he was discriminated against because he's disabled. Gary's Chicaros' owner, Gary James, didn't make things much better when he gave an interview to a local news station: "I've been in business 44 years, I think I can spot a freak or a faggot," he told KFOR.

A new survey finds that male economics Ph.D.'s who get married early in their careers see their salaries grow 25%, while females who do the same thing see their salaries shrink by 23%. You can't argue with the free market, I guess.

In July 2012, a Colorado baker turned away a cake order after he found out that the cake was for a same-sex marriage. On Friday, a judge found that the baker must serve the gay couple or face fines.

The Kansas mother of a 13-year-old boy says he son was suspended from school indefinitely because he refused the assistant principal's order to stop wearing a purse.

Users of the popular online dating site OkCupid who are looking to avoid sullying their search results with unattractive people can now filter out the undesirables courtesy of a recently installed feature — but they'll have to pay extra for the privilege.

A group of twenty-five black family members and their friends say they were denied service at South Carolina restaurant after a white patron complained about feeling "threatened" by their presence.

A female politician who was legitimately elected "first alternate member" of the city council in Qazvin, Iran, was denied her right to sit among the other representatives because she was deemed "too sexy" by the conservative election review board.

A federal judge in Georgia has just thrown out the claims of racial discrimination filed as part of a $1.2 million lawsuit against gooey butter cake Paula Deen by former employee Lisa Jackson. Good thing they nipped that one in the bud before it exploded into the sky like a magnificent fireball, melting the sugar-windows, liquifying the gumdrop roads, and incinerating the gingerbread infrastructure of Paula Deen's candy kingdom.

As a standard part of hiring new workers, lots of businesses run background checks on applicants using the FBI's criminal databases. But those databases have serious problems.

A few months ago, the Iowa Supreme Court made the surprising decision that women can be fired from their jobs for being too attractive, regardless if they've engaged in activity that compromises their job performance.

John St-Onge started playing with Lego many years ago as a way to bond with his then-young children.