From
The Chicago Sun-Times:
The Chicago Fire Department must hire 111 bypassed black firefighter candidates — and distribute “tens of millions of dollars” in damages to 6,000 others who will never get that chance — a federal appeals court ruled Friday, upholding a landmark ruling.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 9-to-0 decision, that, contrary to the city’s contention, African-American candidates hadn’t waited too long before filing a lawsuit that accused the city of discriminating against them for the way it handled a 1995 firefighter’s entrance exam.
On Friday, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling and sent the case back to the trial court to implement what it called the “hiring remedy” the city has been stalling.
Read the entire story
HERE.
Via the
Worcester Telegram:
Since the turn of this century, but not including last year, this was always the weekend to get the word out about the Worcester Firefighters Memorial 6K. The race committee would meet to collate and mail the applications to past runners for the race coming in June.
Consider this getting the word out this year: The June tradition that is the Firefighters 6K is back.
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“Our goal has always been to keep the memory alive for our fallen brothers,” Franco said, referring to Paul Brotherton, Timothy Jackson, Jeremiah Lucey, James “Jay” Lyons, Joseph McGuirk and Thomas Spencer, who answered the ill-fated call to the Cold Storage Warehouse fire in 1999.
This race will also honor the memory of Kevin Turner, a Worcester firefighter who was stationed with Franco at the Webster Square house. Turner died of a heart attack last July at age 39. While in the Army, he served two tours in the Middle East during the Gulf War.
For more details, go to
www.wfd6k.org.
