colored

Example Sentences

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Segura confirmed that the Bass administration let her go last month, as first reported by the Substack Climate Colored Goggles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Jackson pointed to other debates happening at the very same time, known as the Colored Conventions.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025

“I'll never forget it, watching those girls who I’d just done ‘For Colored Girls’ with, but they're continuing on with their acting program, so they're in this production, and I'm not,” she said.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

That’s how unfair things were during that era and why Colored people fought so hard and engaged in so much self-help in an effort to achieve equality.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson