VA has discriminated against disabled black veterans for almost 20 years, lawsuit says

By Tori Richards

Published November 29, 2022 9:36pm ET

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VA has discriminated against disabled black veterans for almost 20 years, lawsuit says — U.S. paratroopers dash across clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in March 1967 and drop them in another to continue their pursuit of the Viet Cong along the Cambodian border. | Anonymous/AP

The Department of Veterans Affairs has routinely discriminated against black veterans since World War II while approving disability claims for white applicants at a greater rate, which leads to benefits such as housing and education assistance, a lawsuit says.

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