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