11.   Many universities, in fact, are trying to attract qualified black applicants.

12.   Mortgage lending to minorities sharply increased in metropolitan New York last year but black applicants continued to be rejected more often than whites, according to new federal data.

13.   Scholars have found that black applicants are far less likely to be employed at firms that hire primarily on the basis of interviews.

14.   The early data suggested that black applicants were twice as likely as whites to be rejected, a fact that made headlines.

15.   The NAACP would help steer black applicants for business loans to the SBA.

16.   This now-defunct admissions process put some black applicants in competition with each other at a lower standard, without having to compete with non-black candidates.

17.   A court ruled Wednesday that an automobile repair shop could not be found guilty of discrimination despite hiring an inexperienced white man over an experienced black applicant.

18.   Data indicate ... that black applicants often fail to get loans their white counterparts receive even if their credit ratings are identical.

19.   The federal government is suing Target Corp., alleging the retailer discriminates against black applicants seeking management jobs in Wisconsin.