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Recent incidents of customers being denied access to nightspots in Minneapolis and Austin have sparked conversation anew about the meaning and intent behind dress codes.
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Mary Hamilton, arrested at an Alabama protest, refused to answer the judge unless he called her "Miss." It was custom for white people to get honorifics, but black people were called by first names.
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The news this week has put race on America's brain. There were the Supreme Court decisions, the trial of George Zimmerman and the downfall of celebrity chef Paula Deen. But the country is still fumbling through persistent inequality, even in the absence of overt prejudice.