race discrimination

Federal officials say a mortgage company accused of engaging in a pattern of lending discrimination in Alabama has agreed to pay $8 million plus a nearly $2 million civil penalty to resolve the allegations. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges mortgage lender Fairway illegally redlined Black neighborhoods in Birmingham.

A jury says a public Alabama university and an employee should pay millions in penalties in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by an Iranian-born cancer researcher. The jury reached the decision against the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Black and other minority farmers are set to receive more than $2 billion in federal aid in response to decades of discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Most payments will go to farmers in Alabama and Mississippi.

The history of slavery in America is the focus of a new sculpture park in Montgomery, Alabama. The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park honors the millions of people who endured slavery's brutality. The park opening March 27 is the third site created by the Equal Justice Initiative, which is dedicated to taking an unflinching look at the nation's history.

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — A white professor at historically black Tuskegee University says he's suing the school, claiming he's been denied the salary he…