minorities
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"Women, minorities, people living at the margins and the poorest were the worst hit by this exercise because they're the ones who find it very difficult to produce documents which can prove their citizenship."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
While the law applies to all religions, the anxiety is being felt most deeply at places where minorities, especially Christians, worship.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“I got into Harvard with grants for women and minorities in science,” said Hernandez, who later earned a PhD in biological sciences in public health.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Maybe accepting such minorities as the Mormons—er, Mennonites—would be better than keeping them at arm’s length.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Racial minorities were always overrepresented in the criminal justice system, but as sociologists have noted, until the mid-1980s, the system was marginal to communities of color.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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