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Sotomayor's eloquent dissent against the decision to allow Michigan to discriminate by race and sex in the college admissions process has the power to wake those asleep in the dream of our country's presumed inevitable progress.Sotomayor's dissent against the decision to allow Michigan to discriminate by race and sex has the power to wake those asleep in the dream of our country's inevitable progress. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigDec 18, 2013
Citing "basic fairness" as motivation for introducing a bill that would prevent employers from using credit reports as criteria when hiring a new employee, Warren, along with six other senators, is once again fighting battles for the disadvantaged. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is busy assuaging Wall Street's fears about populism. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 6, 2013
It's been almost 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education, so why are American schools increasingly segregated? According to sociologist Jeremy Fiel, there are a number of factors due to a drastic shift in demographics since the legendary Supreme Court decision. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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In the months after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act under the argument that it is no longer necessary, regressive voting laws are taking root that threaten to snap the country back to the 1950s, disenfranchising minorities and women. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Minorities in recent years have been the disproportionate target of police dogs used by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, but a new special counsel's report found that for the first six months of this year, all arrest suspects bitten by Sheriff's Department police dogs were African-American or Latino. And the dogs are deployed at an overwhelmingly higher rate in poor neighborhoods than in wealthy ones. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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