What groups of peoples have been or continue to be discriminated against?
Other researchers have found positive effects except for African-Americans, who continue to be discriminated against.
In this age of corporate greed and scandals, it is refreshing to see businesses support a social cause that helps those who have been, and contrary to popular belief continue to be, discriminated against.
It is important to continue along that path, developing federal laws, court rulings and administrative policies that achieve greater economic and social justice for groups that have been, and continue to be, discriminated against.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled in 2012 that the federal ban on sex discrimination covers transgender discrimination, but those affected by that rule change say the government hasn't been enforcing it and that they continue to be discriminated against.
In his opinion, Judge Weeks said he was "especially troubled" by this line of reasoning, which implied that "African-Americans, as a group, will continue to be discriminated against in the future".
Women continue to be discriminated against, both formally in courts, in government and in business (and probably even in civil society organisations), and informally in all walks of life.
"Far too many women and girls continue to be discriminated against, subjected to violence, denied equal opportunities in education and employment, and excluded from positions of leadership and decision-making," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last month with the release of The World's Women 2015 report.
Indigenous communities have been historically marginalized and continue to be discriminated against, and it's young girls and women who pay the highest price.
Nonetheless, Solidarity members and activists continued to be persecuted and discriminated, if less so than during the early 1980s.
