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To Be Equal: Supreme Court Must Keep Affirmative Action Alive
by Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.” – Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court As early as this...
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Affirmative Action Ruling a Relief to Many
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights leaders greeted the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin with lukewarm optimism. “It...
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Eliminating Affirmative Action Would Hurt Black Enrollment
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Whenever states have eliminated affirmative action in the past, a decline in Black college enrollment has followed that decision, a study by...
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Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back to Lower Court
Clarence Thomas would have voted to eliminate affirmative action By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The United States Supreme Court sidestepped making a decision on whether a...
View ArticleAffirmative Action Polls Show Deep Racial Gulf
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the months leading up to this week’s Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, a public opinion poll by ABC News and the Washington Post showed that 76 percent...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: A Good Week at the Supreme Court
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The latest session of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) had the interest of Black Americans like never before. On the line were two key components that brought African...
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U.S. Justices to Hear Race Case; One Side Has Two Voices
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will delve into a decades-old debate over university admissions policies that favor racial minorities, hearing a Michigan case that picks up where the...
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Supreme Court Hears Michigan Challenge to Affirmative Action
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Four months after the Supreme Court declined to invalidate affirmative action in a case brought against the University of Texas, it heard...
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Appeals Court Rehears Texas Race-Admissions Case
CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court asked lawyers for the University of Texas on Wednesday to explain how they would decide when affirmative action for...
View ArticleAcceptance by 8 Ivies Doesn’t Remove Race Stigma
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist You would think that news of a high school student from a family of African immigrants getting accepted into all eight Ivy League universities would be met with...
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High Court Upholds Mich. Affirmative Action Ban
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan...
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Michigan Affirmative Ban is OK, Supreme Court Says
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A state’s voters are free to outlaw the use of race as a factor in college admissions, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a blow to affirmative action...
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Sotomayor Accuses Colleagues of Trying to ‘Wish Away’ Racial Inequality
[The Washington Post] Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s fierce defense of the affirmative action efforts such as the ones that helped move her from a Bronx housing project to the upper echelons of American law...
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5 Takeaways from Affirmative-Action Ruling
[Politico] The Supreme Court’s decision upholding Michigan’s affirmative-action ban was far from a shock, but it generated considerable strife on the high court, producing five different opinions in...
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Backers, Opponents of Michigan Ban React to Ruling
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decision Tuesday upholding the state’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions comes as the University of Michigan has been...
View ArticleSupreme Court Continues to Limit Affirmative Action
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Roberts Supreme Court decided last week that voters in the state of Michigan had the right to ban affirmative action policies in college admissions. Michigan is...
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To Be Equal: Sotomayor—A Voice of Reason among Reckless Rhetoric
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Race matters…because of the long history of racial minorities being denied access to the political process…because of persistent racial inequality in society —...
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A Victory for Affirmative Action
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Almost lost among the news last week about the war in the Middle East and a war of another kind in Washington between Republicans and President Obama was a bit of...
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Experts Debate Race-Based College Admissions
(The Harvard Crimson) – Two experts in educational inequality exchanged diverging opinions on race-based affirmative action in the college admissions process at a forum at the Graduate School of...
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Scholar Says Race-Neutral Approach Needed for Affirmative Action
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of unrelenting law suits seeking to abolish affirmative action coupled with nearly half of all universities...
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