Black and Latino leaders file federal civil rights complaint against City of Boston alleging discrimination in public contracting
A group of Black and Latino organizations filed on Wednesday a federal civil rights complaint against the City of Boston alleging that its public contracting system engages in a pattern of discrimination against Black- and Latino-owned businesses.
The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, the Greater Boston Latino Network, and Amplify Latinx filed a complaint with the Department of Justice and Department of Transportation after the city recently completed a disparity study that indicated from 2014 to 2019 only 1.2 percent of its nearly $2.2 billion of its procurement dollars went to Black- and Latino-owned businesses.
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