ancestry

Through research into her ancestry and family tree, her brother-in-law made an alarming discovery.

Blackwell, in written responses to questions from The Times, said she accepted the grant last May, before she learned about her true ancestry.

In recent years, the Office for Civil Rights has focused increasingly on investigating allegations of antisemitism, anti-Arab bias and other complaints of discrimination based on race and shared ancestry.

Shortly after, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S., many of them citizens, were forced into incarceration camps under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.

Unruh bans discrimination by California businesses based on age, ancestry, color, disability, national origin and a variety of other factors.