The office has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism, hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color and providing remedial help for Black youth, all of which the administration says discriminates against white students.
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Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
The Sheldon painting depicts a young Black man standing on a sidewalk dressed in a baseball cap, jeans and a loose, untucked, long-sleeve, button-down shirt, his arms outstretched, while white people in business attire walk past him in a blur.
If the land in question has been converted from agricultural fields to golf-course acreage, the net impact of those other factors might actually be lessened, but that’s a wan exculpation.
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David Quammen,
Outside Online,
2 Mar. 2020
The industrial lagers were flavorless, wan and dilute; craft beer, by contrast, would be rich, complex and delicious.
Boat shoes, collared shirt, sunburn, tan around sunglasses, pasty, red hair.
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Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
Myers, the talent behind Wednesday’s roommate, Enid Sinclair, in the show, conversely, kept a pasty, pale visage, drawing attention to her deep plum lipstick.
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