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  2. Person of color - Wikipedia

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    The term "person of color" (pl.: people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) [1] is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".In its current meaning, the term originated in, and is primarily associated with, the United States; however, since the 2010s, it has been adopted elsewhere in the Anglosphere (often as person of colour), including relatively limited ...

  3. Executive Order 13985 - Wikipedia

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    Executive Order 13985, officially titled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, is the first executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. It directs the federal government to revise agency policies to account for racial inequities in their implementation.

  4. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Wikipedia

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    Also, the agency reduced the private sector charge inventory by nearly 4 percent to the lowest level in 14 years. [35] Notably, the agency increased the percentage of charges resolved and those with an outcome favorable to the charging party increased by nearly two percent, to 17.4 percent. [36]

  5. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President Kennedy stated in Executive Order 10925 that "discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin is contrary to the Constitutional principles and policies of the United States"; that "it is the plain and positive obligation of the United States Government to promote and ensure equal opportunity for all qualified persons ...

  6. Environmental racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The two most relevant sections in these cases are sections 601 and 602. section 601 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin by any government agency receiving federal funds. To win an environmental justice case that claims an agency violated this statute, the plaintiff must prove the agency intended to discriminate.

  7. Discrimination based on hair texture in the United States

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    Passed an amendment to the New York Human Rights Law [13] New Jersey: December 19, 2019: Passed the Crown Act [14] Virginia: March 3, 2020: Passed the Virginia Human Rights Act [15] Colorado: March 6, 2020: Passed the Crown Act [16] Washington: March 19, 2020: Passed an amendment to the Washington State Law Against Discrimination [17] Maryland ...

  8. Constitutional colorblindness - Wikipedia

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    Constitutional colorblindness is a legal and philosophical principle suggesting that the Constitution, particularly the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, should be interpreted as prohibiting the government from considering race in its laws, policies, or decisions. [1]

  9. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...