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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A decade after carefully ruling in two University of Michigan cases – striking down the undergraduate admissions procedures and...
