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Perspectives: Sotomayor Falls in Journalism’s Blind Spot

The president’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court has come during a most awkward time in the history of U.S. journalism, which many analysts claim is in serious decline, if not on life support.

June 2, 2009

HBCUs

Preclearance Provision of Voting Rights Act at Core of Supreme Court Case

Just months after the election of the nation’s first Black president, in which African-American voter registration and voter turnout was at its highest, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether states with a history of racial discrimination at the polls still need federal oversight.

April 28, 2009

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White Man’s Burden? Discrimination Suits Flourish

The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation’s highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was White.

April 28, 2009

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Britain Proposes Affirmative Action Bill

Is the end near for the English gentleman of privilege? Britain has proposed an affirmative action bill meant to tackle thorny class divisions and encourage equal opportunities for women and minorities — a proposal already causing an uproar in some circles.

April 27, 2009

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Discrimination Claim Appears to Divide High Court

A divided Supreme Court took up its first examination of race in the Obama era Wednesday, wrestling with claims of job discrimination by White firefighters in a case that could force changes in employment practices nationwide.

April 22, 2009

Students

Civil Rights Pioneer: Education and Service Key to Ending Discrimination, Injustice

The arc of Cleveland Sellers Jr.’s life has taken him from rural South Carolina to the Ivy League, where he earned a master’s at Harvard University, through the civil rights movement into the first-ever campus shooting in the United States, to exile in Greensboro, N.C., and academia in Columbia then back home to the place where it all started — Denmark, S.C.

April 20, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Benedict College Settles With White Instructors Who Charged Discrimination

A historically Black college in South Carolina has been sued after three White faculty members say they were passed over for jobs or let go for because of their race, federal officials announced Wednesday.

April 9, 2009

LGBTQ+

Gainesville, Fla., Anti-discrimination Laws Kept

Voters on Tuesday turned down a measure that could have stripped Gainesville government’s anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.

March 25, 2009

LGBTQ+

Gainesville, Fla., Votes on Gay Discrimination Ban

Voters in this university city went to the polls Tuesday in an election that could strip the local government’s anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.

March 24, 2009

Students

Creating a Sustainable Pipeline

After the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came under fire for a lack of diversity among its tenured faculty, the school’s administration is taking steps to ensure it is welcoming to faculty of color.

February 17, 2009

Latinx

Study Finds Bias in Florida Exemptions for Promotion

Researchers at the University of Arkansas found evidence of discrimination in how schools grant exemptions from a test-based promotions system.

February 10, 2009

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Renewing the Fight Against Affirmative Action

Some affirmative action and diversity program critics are cheering President Barack Obama’s election because they believe his success dramatically undermines the argument that discrimination remains a significant barrier for minorities in American life.

February 4, 2009