The DOE leveled the playing field at Harvard University. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻
Here is a look at some of the first Black women to graduate from Ivy League institutions and the circumstances surrounding their attendance.
I need you to let that hurt go, sis. It's been seven years.
Women were added to those who should benefit from affirmative action. They have.
(Sacramento Bee) — The phrase “rules are meant to be broken” doesn’t apply to the NFL. But “rules are meant to be hoops to jump through” might. You’ve seen the “Rooney Rule” invoked recently, particularly in reference to the 49ers’ search for a general manager. Owner Jed York interviewed Tony Softli, a former St. Louis Rams executive. […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun has unveiled her plans to improve the process of allocating contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses. Calling the issue one of “grave importance,” Braun said: “It goes to the heart of defining our community as one of inclusion and diversity or exclusion and cabals.” If elected, […]
The debate over race-based policy heats up once again.
(NY Times) — TODAY’S populist moment, with a growing anger directed at the elites who manipulate the system to their advantage, is an opportune time to examine higher education’s biggest affirmative action program — for the children of alumni. At our top universities, so-called legacy preferences affect larger numbers of students than traditional affirmative action […]
By Danielle Kwateng Although many believe the country has not changed much in the past fifty years, there have been several laws that counter those arguments. From affirmative action policies to voting rights ordinances to drug laws, these 11 policies have changed and impacted the African-American community for better or for worse. Additional Reporting by […]
(Chicago Tribune) — An overhaul in the admissions process for Chicago’s selective public schools had little impact on overall diversity, but individual buildings show much more variance — in some cases growing more segregated for the 2010-11 school year, CPS officials said Tuesday. Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman cautioned that the data are very preliminary […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayor Daley’s appointment of third-generation firefighter Robert Hoff to replace ousted Fire Commissioner John Brooks sailed through a City Council committee on Monday — with a promise from Hoff to embrace older black applicants bypassed by the city’s discriminatory handling of a 1995 firefighters exam. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last […]
The Supreme Court nominee's record on minority hires still stands-- 29 faculty hires, and no black or Latino hires. This is hardly a moot point.