discrimination
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Fighting discrimination at scale will require that colleges publish admissions data and bring transparency to a process that still appears to treat applicants differently by race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The judge said there wasn’t sufficient evidence of ongoing institutionalized racial discrimination at Harvard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Trump officials argued they had a right to recoup the money under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law barring discrimination based on race or national origin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The same was true of the Supreme Court’s foundational sex discrimination cases, many of which were either litigated by Ginsburg when she was an attorney or eventually decided by her as a justice.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the United Kingdom, the women who flew for the ATA struggled with similar discrimination issues.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
The #MeToo movement in 2017 increased awareness of the subtle - and the not so subtle - discriminations women face at work.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
Italy’s watchdog added that the measures imposed aimed at avoiding discriminations and granting efficiency to any potential new players in the sector.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021
However, as of mid-August, only 28% of young Black New York City residents are vaccinated, often rooted in distrust of government or current discriminations.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
But making discriminations isn’t always discriminatory, and it isn’t a knockdown argument against a rule to say that it excludes good candidates and includes bad ones.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
Boston, is a temperate discussion of the Reform Spirit of the day, abounding in salutary cautions and judicious discriminations.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing discrimination
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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