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"It is both shocking and very saddening that forty-two years after a
unanimous United States Supreme Court outlawed state laws interfering
with interracial marriages in Loving v. Virginia, that some—including
those who are appointed 'to keep the peace'—still hold these destructive
views on race."
A 1993 and 1999 investigation by the ERC and one of its predecessor organizations found African-Americans were discriminated against 36 percent of the time when hailing a taxicab and that requests for pick-ups received service 14 times more often in white neighborhoods than in black neighborhoods. This report discussing these investigations and details seven steps for remediation.
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As an organization whose mission grew out of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, the ERC is committed to eliminating race-based discrimination. Although significant gains have been made, including the recent inauguration of the first African-American as President of the United States, racial discrimination still occurs in 
