A legal advocacy group led by Edward Blum says a Texas nonprofit’s grant program for women and minorities violates federal law, part of a recent spate of legal challenges to programs aimed at promoting diversity.
The American Alliance for Equal Rights is suing Austin-based Hidden Star on behalf of a white male over a Hidden Star program the Alliance says offers $2,750 to entrepreneurs who are “confirmable ethnic minorit[ies] or female[s],” according to a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. AAER alleges the program amounts to illegal discrimination under Section 1981 of ...
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