Hey everybody, and welcome to Week 4 and our discussion of civil rights! This is one huge topic and given that we're going to focus on key concepts: civil rights, public discrimination, private discrimination, equality of opportunity, equality of outcome, and state action. It's important to understand what types of discrimination are and are not allowed under existing law... and that's often going to depend on which groups we define as not covered by the law (e.g. do we base it on age, sex, race, etc.). Our civil rights amendments (the 13th, 14th, and 15th along with the 19th, 24th, and 26th) will outline what limits we have on discr ...