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"We are pleased that after 40 years, the City of New York has finally stopped denying it has a problem in the FDNY."

A federal judge has ordered the city to pay an estimated $128 million in back wages to minorities who applied to be firefighters with the FDNY, which is still 97 percent white and allegedly racist.

Recently Black and Hispanic firefighters have cried foul on the FDNY’s

from redjoe's flickr A week after the city was found to

Mayor Bloomberg was back in court for the third time in