Discrimination: Last News

Anita Rachvelishvili was contracted to perform various shows at the legendary Manhattan opera, including “Aida,” “La Gioconda,” “Carmen” and “Don Carlo” from 2022 to 2025 — a deal worth upwards of $400,000.But instead of using her “sonorous voice” to belt out the famed works, the opera cancelled her remaining performances in January 2023, accusing Rachvelishvili, 40, of “deterioration of vocal quality,” she said in court papers.Rachvelishvili, who gave birth to her daughter in November 2021, admitted she was “temporarily limited in her very highest vocal range” after becoming a mom but said there was never an impact on her work.“She was nonetheless at all times ready, willing and able to perform the roles for which she was contracted,” she said in court papers, noting she has since “recovered her full vocal range.”She claims the Met and the union discriminated against her because she was pregnant.“I loved performing on the Met stage and looked forward to returning after the birth of my first child. I was shocked that I was not given a chance to recover and all of my contracts for the next two years were immediately canceled without pay,” she said in a statement.“After supporting the Met throughout the pandemic, I am disappointed, to say the least, at this harmful treatment.”Rachvelishvili, who hails from the former Soviet republic of Georgia and now lives in Tbilisi, was once heralded as the “greatest dramatic mezzo-soprano” by her Metropolitan Opera boss, Peter Gelb.

Blake Lively is moving to dismiss Justin Baldoni‘s defamation lawsuit.

Donald Trump‘s executive order that banning transgender people from serving in the military has been blocked by a federal judge.

Emily Longeretta Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner, the showrunners and executive producers of “The Bachelor,” are leaving the series. They are still at work on Grant Ellis’ current season of “The Bachelor,” which is nearing its end, but are negotiating their exits from the franchise.

BBC News presenters Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera, and Annita McVeigh have settled a three-year dispute over what they described as a “sham” recruitment process.

Sir Ian McKellen is encouraging young gay actors to embrace their identities.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to the CEOs of Alphabet and Google, calling out the refusal of YouTube TV to carry a network, Great American Family, as a potential case of discrimination against faith-based programming.

A French woman suing a Scots charity for racial and ethnic discrimination was fired for being "hostile" and "uncooperative", her ex-boss has told a hearing.

Police are investigating an incident of alleged racism at the Scottish Premiership game between Kilmarnock and St Johnstone at the weekend.

Another former employee of Kanye West is suing him.

Many pensioners are missing out on Lidl supermarket discounts because they don’t own a smartphone, a Perthshire MP said this week.

More than 3m workers are set to receive a pay rise of up to £2,500 a year from April.

A Detroit rapper is suing Lyft over clear discrimination — in the form of fat-shaming.

BFI chair Jay Hunt has revealed that she has appointed “anti-racism champions” to the movie body’s board after an independent investigation concluded last year that it mishandled a discrimination complaint.

Siddhant Adlakha As a documentary about politically incendiary subjects — including medical transition and the discrimination faced by transgender communities — Italian documentary “GEN_” is unconventionally persuasive. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, the film follows several months in the life of the elderly Dr. Bini, a quirky, fast-talking fertility and hormone specialist in the twilight of his career, whose job comes with navigating both his patient’s personal lives, and the conservative legalese by which they’re bound.

Abigail Lee The documentary “Les Hijabeuses” has won the 2025 Action Grant from Breaking Through The Lens, a nonprofit that focuses on using financing to address gender inequity in the film industry. The UK film, which is the second winner since the grant program began, receives 10,000 Euros. “Les Hijabeuses” chronicles a group of Muslim women soccer players in Paris advocating for their place in the game in the face of discrimination.

It seems like every day this year there’s another headline about women being talked down to, discriminated against, or losing the rights we’ve had for decades. From Mark Zuckerberg telling Joe Rogan that companies need more “masculine energy” to Donald Trump’s executive orders stripping diversity and inclusion programs and concerning movements by state lawmakers to push the boundaries of , it’s almost too much to process.But we are processing—and documenting.

Jack Dunn In a recent discussion with The Guardian, Rami Malek detailed his experiences with racism as an Egyptian-American, pointing to one racial profiling incident where he found himself on the hood of a cop car. “I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a woman’s bag,” Malek explained. “They said the [thief] was of Latin descent and, ‘You fit the description.’ I remember how hot that engine was, they must have been racing over there and it was almost burning my hands.” Luckily for the “Mr.

On January 9, Chief Judge Danny Reeves struck down Biden administration rules that embraced a broader interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally-funded educational settings.Under Biden’s expanded interpretation of Title IX, LGBTQ students can potentially sue if they believe they have been subjected to injustices, such as being bullied or banned from certain spaces because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The rules were introduced in the spring of 2024 and were quickly challenged by GOP attorneys general in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia, who have argued that “sex” refers only to biological sex as observed at the time of a person’s birth.Therefore, they argued, sex-based discrimination should only apply to instances where a person is discriminated against based on their assigned sex at birth and not their gender identity.The lawsuit also challenged a provision allowing transgender students to sue school facilities that align with their gender identity.Reeves, of the U.S.

announced the change on January 7, noting that it was eliminating its third-party fact-checking system and replacing it with a user-based “Community Notes” model similar to the one employed by X.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg further announced the company would be relocating its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.”All of it is being done in the name of promoting “free expression,” with Meta kowtowing to right-wing MAGA critics who claim the platform has limited the visibility of posts from conservatives or and has censored “free speech” as it pertains to religious or social issues, such as users who refuse to recognize transgender identity as valid.Perhaps most appallingly, Meta has updated its “Hateful Conduct” policy to allow the use of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and offensive terms, according to The Verge.In its revised policy, Meta defines prohibited “hateful conduct” as direct attacks against people — rather than concepts or institutions — on the basis of protected characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or affliction with a serious disease.It also considers age a protected characteristic when referenced along with another protected characteristic.However, it appears to have carved out a host of exemptions that will specifically allow certain types of hate-based speech directed at LGBTQ individuals on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.For example, Meta claims that it prohibits “calls for exclusion or segregation when targeting people based on protected characteristics.” However, it will allow users to argue in favor of excluding LGBTQ

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