PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
August 2, 2023
Contact:
Edward Blum
703-505-1922
edwardjayblum@gmail.com
American Alliance for Equal Rights Files Lawsuit Challenging Racially Discriminatory Grants by Fearless Fund Management LLC
(Austin, Texas) Today, the American Alliance for Equal Rights, a 501(c)(3) membership organization, filed a lawsuit against Fearless Fund Management, LLC and affiliated companies for operating a racially discriminatory grant program that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866. 42 U.S.C. §1981.
Under the terms of the grant program, official eligibility for the contest depends on an applicant’s race with only black females being eligible to participate in the process. The submission of an entry forms “a contract” between Fearless Fund and the applicant.
Fearless Fund’s explicit racial exclusion in making contracts clearly violates Section 1981. The American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAFER) has members who are being excluded from participating in the program because they are the wrong race.
The lawsuit requests the federal court enter a judgment against Fearless Fund for operating this racially discriminatory contract and issue a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction barring them from closing the fourth application period, selecting grant recipients, or enforcing its racially discriminatory eligibility criteria for the Fearless Strivers Grant Contest.
The complaint is attached.
Blum added, “Programs, contracts, employment opportunities and other areas of our nation’s public and private policies that are racially exclusive like the one offered by the Fearless Fund are unfair and illegal and will be vigorously challenged in federal and state courts throughout the country.”