seattle - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:42:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg seattle - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 Seattle Becomes First US Jurisdiction to Ban Indian Caste Discrimination https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2023/03/14/seattle-becomes-first-us-jurisdiction-to-ban-indian-caste-discrimination/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seattle-becomes-first-us-jurisdiction-to-ban-indian-caste-discrimination Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=17168 In a 6-1 decision, Seattle City Council passed an ordinance to ban discrimination based on caste – making Seattle the first jurisdiction to list caste as protected category from discriminatory tactics alongside race, gender, religion, sexual orientation and other forms of identification. The caste system is a historical, hierarchical and societal structure that has been […]

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