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Despite education, black workers still face challenges

With the unemployment rate at a twenty-eight-year low of 4.5 percent, and discussion of discrimination unpopula in this post-affirmative action era, scant attention has been focused on the unemployment rate gap and the differential status of African American workers. But yes, there is still an unemployment rate gap, and it widened — not narrowed — in the face of economic prosperity.

July 14, 2007

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Northwest passage? The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in national struggle over affirmative action

The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in the national struggle over affirmative action

July 14, 2007

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Besieged, bothered, and bewildered: affirmative action director charges Pitt-Johnstown president with discrimination, harassment and retaliation – University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. According to the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown’s affirmative action director, the institution’s president told her that he did not believe in affirmative action and would do everything possible to avoid implementing its principles.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

White administrators charge college with racism – Houston Community College

Houston White administrators at Houston Community College (HCC) have accused the institution of racial discrimination in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

July 12, 2007

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The pragmatism of Bakke – affirmative action

This month’s twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. University of California is an odd occasion to commemorate. The Bakke case is the earliest in which the Supreme Court directly addressed affirmative action. But like much of the affirmative action debate, Bakke is as symbolic as it is real. Appropriately, given its resolution at the time, the Bakke case presents multiple meanings today.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities

More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.

July 12, 2007

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Bluefield State College strikes agreement with Feds – racial discrimination

Discrimination investigation closed after school pledges to change its ways

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Feds Close Title VI Investigation in Ohio

DAYTON, Ohio The decision by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to close its active Title VI investigation into the state of Ohio’s treatment of Central State University (CSU) triggered mixed reactions ranging from praise to sharp criticism in and around the Wilberforce, Ohio campus.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Looking out for their future – Black and Latino students seek to support University of Michigan as defendants in reverse discrimination lawsuit

Washington National and local civil rights groups are hoping to accomplish in Michigan what Texas officials failed to do during Hopwood v. Texas — that is, prevent the restriction of educational opportunities for Black and Latino students.

July 11, 2007

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The pitfalls and the pendulum – recruiting for affirmative action programs and the law

People often ask me to predict how current events are shaping the future of affirmative action. The wonder aloud about the legality of initiatives to recruit, action, and promote Black faculty and administrators. My response may vary somewhat, depending on the purpose of the question and the questioner. But, invariably, I make one point emphatically: The pendulum tends to swing back and forth in response to the political climate of the country, but the backward arcs have never been dramatic — especially in comparison with the wider swings forward.

July 11, 2007

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Breaking Thurgood Marshall’s promise – declining minority enrollment in higher education

Out of 268 first-year students enrolled at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, only on is African American. Out of 468 at the University of Texas School of Law, only four are. Embedded in these cold facts is a personal story of how, forty-seven years ago, I witnessed the birth of racial justice in the Supreme court and how now, after forty-five years as a lawyer, judge, and law professor, I sometimes feel as if I am watching justice die.

July 11, 2007

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Bailing out Piscataway school board: civil rights groups avoid possibility of allowing Supreme Court to make “bad law.” – Piscataway, New Jersey, case before U.S. Supreme Court

The settlement of a New Jersey reverse discrimination case by civil rights groups has headed off a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling many activists believe would have dealt a death blow to affirmative action programs in the United States.

July 11, 2007