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State AGs Tell Top 100 CEOs That SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling Applies to Them Too

State attorneys general from Tennessee, Kansas, and 11 other states put 100 of America’s largest corporations on notice that, following the Supreme Court decision against racial discrimination at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, private companies would be held to the same standard.  In a July 13 letter to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies,…


After Supreme Court Colorblind Ruling, the Slavery Reparations Fight Lives On as ‘Not Race-Based’

News Analysis The uncertain legality of paying reparations for slavery and its legacies came into focus two weeks ago when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions nationwide. But while some see the ruling as a major setback for the reparations movement, it isn’t likely to deter its advocates, who say that…


US Bill Would Require Colleges Disclose Use of ‘Racist’ Personality Tests in Admissions

U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) has introduced legislation to require colleges and universities to disclose whether they use personality trait tests in admission decisions a week after the U.S. Supreme Court said colleges cannot use race as a factor in admissions. Ms. Steel, who introduced the Helping Applicants Receive Valid and Reasonable Decisions (HARVARD) Act…


[ATL:NOW] Bob Woodson: How Affirmative Action and ‘Helping Hand’ of Government Have ‘Decimated’ Black Communities

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…


[ATL:NOW] Bob Woodson: How Affirmative Action and the ‘Helping Hand’ of Government Have ‘Decimated’ Black Communities

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…


Professor Sues Penn State University for Racial Discrimination

Zack De Piero, a former English writing professor at the Pennsylvania State University, is suing the institution after being subject to racially discriminatory policies at the campus for being white. “Penn State has implemented a university-wide policy and so-called ‘strategic plan,’ euphemistically labeled ‘anti-racism,’” says the lawsuit (pdf), filed on June 14 in the U.S….


[PREMIERING 9:30PM ET] Bob Woodson: How Affirmative Action and ‘Helping Hand’ of Government Have ‘Decimated’ Black Communities [ATL:NOW]

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…


Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action Policies at US Colleges

The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not…


Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Colleges

The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote (pdf) that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is…


New Zealand Prioritising Maori and Pacific Island Patients Over Others in the Name of ‘Equity’

New Zealand’s National and ACT parties have decried the Labour government for promoting racial discrimination after it was revealed that surgery waitlists in Auckland take ethnicity into consideration when prioritising healthcare. National’s health spokesperson, Dr Shane Reti, has called on the government to drop the ethnicity requirements “immediately.” “While there has been historical inequity that…