is it harder for black people to get a taxi in the US? or About the Taxi Test

When you talk about race in the US, you're likely to hear someone say it's harder for black folks to catch a cab. Most of the country became very aware of that in 1994 when Michael Moore did the "taxi test” on TV Nation: Yaphet Kotto, a black actor, and Louie Bruno, a white felon, hailed taxis to see who would be picked up. Most cabbies passed Kotto to pick up Bruno.

But a much better test had a different result.

Kotto filed a complaint with the city of New York, and in 1999, May...