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Mejía said everyone’s experience is different when it comes to racism and discrimination. Herself being Mexican American, indigenous born in the U.S., Mejía said, is different from other ...
Hurting Black people with laws meant to help them. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting. Instead, lawmakers now use gerrymandering to dilute the voice of voters ...
Even free African Americans have faced restrictions on their political, social, and economic freedoms, being subjected to lynchings, segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of discrimination, both before and after the Civil War.
Image credits: DisabledButts #9. Disability is a numbers game. If you live long enough, you WILL become disabled in some way. The human mind keeps us from processing this as fact, because our ...
LGBTQ+ people and their rights have been discriminated against for various reasons; for example, one topic of controversy related to LGBTQ+ people is same-sex marriage, which was legalized in all the fifty states in June 2015 following the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges. On 15 June 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v.
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
Those who speak of the political rights of the untouchables don't know their India, don't know how Indian society is today constituted and therefore I want to say with all the emphasis that I can command that if I was the only person to resist this thing that I would resist it with my life. [24]
Many people are confused about their rights and responsibilities if they have a covered disability, and whether or not they are covered. Here are 15 things you need to know about disability ...