It should be about reparations—not about the supposedly unique perspectives that minorities would offer white students.
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The App at the Heart of the Movement to End Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
“WeChat is a monster. There’s nothing like it on Earth.”
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What Happens When a College’s Affirmative-Action Policy Is Found Illegal | The Atlantic
A Supreme Court case found that the University of Michigan was using race in admissions the wrong way. Then the state stepped in, and minority enrollments dropped.
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The Harvard Case Is About the Future of Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
One day before Harvard goes to court to defend its admissions practices, two warring rallies made clear that the trial is about much more than just the university.
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The Supreme Court Justice Who Forever Changed Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
Justice Lewis Powell’s ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.
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Trump Administration Reverses Obama on Affirmative Action | The New York Times
The Trump administration will encourage the nation’s school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards, abandoning an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, administration officials said.
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The Black Renaissance Is Real: HBCUs See Record Growth in 2017 | The Root
Last week I went to Howard University’s homecoming, and like Deon Cole, Chance the Rapper and Malia Obama at the 2012 inauguration, I was reminded that once you see the bands stomping, the music playing and the quad popping, you know that nobody throws a party like an HBCU.
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When Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough | The New York Times
Because race-based discrepancies in academic achievement emerge in early childhood, “college is way too little, too late to source the pipeline”
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The Myth of Reverse Racism | The Atlantic
The idea of white victimhood is increasingly central to the debate over affirmative action.
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Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory.
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