Can somebody please help with this question?

This place is most likely a religous place, somebody important probably died there or it was blessed by a priest(rabbis).

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

it foreshadows the theme of the paragraph and hints the topic that will be discussed in the paragraph!