By MARYAM ABDUL-ALEEM and JANELLE BERRY Special to the AmNews
The Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of Black firefighters, has successfully won a leg in the fight for fair hearing practices within the fire department. The Vulcan Society was created in 1940 to support Black firefighters and eliminate discrimination in the fire department. Even now, they still strive for equality.Due to a complaint filed by the Vulcan Society, the Fire Department of New York was charged last Thursday of racially discriminatory hiring practices. The Vulcan’s victory against the FDNY came on the heels of discriminatory testing and recruitment practices that “unfairly excluded hundreds of qualified people of color from the opportunity to serve as New York City firefighters,” United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ruled July 22.
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