President Jacob Zuma will oversee the donation of houses to poor black and white families in "a non-racial settlement" in the Pretoria area, and the retired archbishop Desmond Tutu will help paint a school in Cape Town.
Inspired by the $192 million racial bias settlement won by their counterparts at the company's corporate headquarters in Atlanta two years ago, black workers in the Baltimore-Washington area, Cincinnati and Chicago have begun organizing discrimination cases of their own.
Free from the burden of paying the largest racial discrimination settlement ever and the cost of revamping, the Coca-Cola Company said yesterday that its fourth-quarter earnings nearly quadrupled.
What sets Sterling apart, besides the hilariously inept ads he designs for his high-end real estate properties and the massive racial discrimination settlements he has paid out related to his less-high-end ones, is how weirdly bulletproof he is.
Two executives, two lawyers and three former civil rights officials are among those who have been selected to serve on a task force overseeing Coca-Cola's hiring and employment practices as part of its broad racial discrimination lawsuit settlement, the company said.
Whatever government emerges is certain to preside over more settlement-building, racial discrimination and escalating violence.
While the settlement sets no racial quotas, it requires the county to market the homes aggressively to black and Hispanic residents of the New York City area.
After the meeting, Mr. Jackson called for "a fair and just settlement" of a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the company by a group of Coke employees nearly a year ago.
— Schools in Hartford and 22 of its suburbs would be encouraged to open more classroom seats to children from outside their neighborhoods in order to increase racial diversity, under a tentative settlement reached Friday in a decades-old desegregation case.
But after resolving some internal problems, including reaching a $192.5 million settlement of the racial discrimination case in late 2000, he has slowly scaled back Coke's forecasts for volume and earnings growth, signaling that a full recovery remains elusive.
The inclusion of specific racial goals in the proposed settlement had been a key objective for plaintiffs, who returned to court last year and accused the state of dragging its feet in complying with a 1996 state Supreme Court ruling.
