“The Rooney Rule is also not working because management is not doing the interviews in good-faith, and it therefore creates a stigma that interviews of Black candidates are only being done to ...

The Rooney Rule has been in place for more than two decades, but a Yale Law paper co-authored by DeMaurice Smith argues it's merely been a suggestion.

“The Rooney Rule is also not working because management is not doing the interviews in good-faith, and it therefore creates a stigma that interviews of Black candidates are only being done to ...

The Rooney Rule officially went into effect for the 2003 season, roughly a year after Dungy and Green's firings. At the time it was implemented, Dungy and Edwards were the only minority coaches in ...

The NFL has used the so-called “Rooney Rule” since 2003. It’s under renewed scrutiny because ex-Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores expressed skepticism about its effectiveness in the lawsuit ...

But the Flores suit called the Rooney Rule a failure, so we decided to go back to one of the key people involved in the creation of it to get his take. That's civil rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri, ...

No matter, though. The Jaguars had complied with the Rooney Rule as of Thursday night and were free to make Coen their next coach. This does not make Shad Khan -- a Pakistani American who is the ...

Black Monday lived up to its name this week, as the annual day in which NFL coaches are fired is highlighted by the fact that a total of five black coaches lost their jobs in 2018. In a league that… ...

Without enforcement, the Rooney Rule failed to create equitable opportunities for Black coaches. Then it spread to corporate America and fell short there, too. Warning: This graphic requires ...

Mehri cowrote the Rooney Rule with civil rights lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., along with major input from Wooten. Despite its flaws, the Rooney Rule is working, said Wooten, 88, a college Hall of ...

DEI’s ‘Rooney Rule’ placed under legal microscope, on and off the field. Stephen Miller’s America First Legal files an EEOC complaint against the NFL, adding to the wave of challenges ...