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Racial Slur Against USC Student Leader Sparks Campus Debate
(Los Angeles Times) – Lola Fajinmi and Precious Nwaoha were both A students in high school. But once they got to USC, the African American women were repeatedly asked if they were athletes and told...
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Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Testifies EXACTLY what Kavanaugh...
AFRIAN AMERICAN NEWS & ISSUES— Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s record on criminal justice is “entirely...
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How The College Admissions Scandal Lawsuit Affects Black Alumni Of Schools...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — A new lawsuit against elite universities over the admissions scandal suggests that Black alumni of those schools will likely face new scrutiny and fresh doubts in addition to what...
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OP-ED: Rev. Joseph Lowery: One of the most influential leaders of the latter...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lowery’s enduring legacy, I believe, is that he led the SCLC back from near death, to vibrancy and noteworthy relevance, after taking over in 1977, nine years after the King...
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COMMENTARY: The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As President of the Texas Black Expo (TBE), my primary interest is the economic part of the system—the creation and growth of Black-owned business enterprises. You’d think that such an...
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Mitt Romney and Affirmative Action
By Stephanie Jones NNPA Columnist Much was made of what Mitt Romney said and didn’t say during his recent speech to the NAACP’s annual convention in Houston. His boo-evoking swipe at “Obamacare” got...
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Affirmative Action Supporters Rally at Supreme Court
Students Don't Want Affirmative Action Overturned (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen) Affirmative Action Supporters Rally at Supreme Court By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –...
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Supreme Court Considers Limiting Affirmative Action
Supporters of affirmative action rally near steps of the Supreme Court (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen) Supreme Court Considers Limiting Affirmative Action By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief...
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Supreme Court Determined to Kill Affirmative Action
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A decade after carefully ruling in two University of Michigan cases – striking down the undergraduate admissions procedures and upholding those implemented by the...
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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...
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Affirmative Action Polls Show Deep Racial Gulf
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA). By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the months...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: A Good Week at the Supreme Court
Harry Alford is the president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The latest session of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) had the interest of Black...
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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...
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Acceptance 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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