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This Virginia Bill Expands Affirmative Action in State Contracting

The bill creates a new program to increase agency spending on small businesses, particularly those owned by women, minorities, and disabled veterans.

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‘DEI is dead, equality isn’t’: experts chart path forward amid Trump’s culture war

Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins

The Guardian - US

Helen Andrews Is Wrong About Asians, Admissions, and Affirmative Action

Her central claim—that forcing Harvard to end racial discrimination has only harmed whites—is not supported by the data she cites.

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Justice Department sues Harvard for data as it investigates how race factors into admissions

The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, saying it has refused to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions

The Independent UK

DOJ cracks down on Minnesota’s affirmative action program in latest escalation of Trump’s battle with state

Minnesota has sued the Trump administration for its sweeping immigration operation in Minneapolis

The Independent UK

This student group agrees US universities are too elitist – but aims to transform, not destroy them

Class Action, a grassroots network formed after the affirmative action ruling, seeks to be critical of universities in their current form

The Guardian - US

South Africa eases affirmative action regulations on Starlink and others that Musk said were racist

South Africa’s communications minister has ordered a policy change that allows Elon Musk's Starlink and other foreign-owned satellite internet providers to operate in the country without selling 30% of their local equity to Black or other non-white owners

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Should Affirmative Action End?

Jason Riley and Paul Frymer debate affirmative action and the Supreme Court.

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Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions

The Independent UK

Affirmative action opponent's next target: A private school with admissions preference for Hawaiians

A private school founded by a Hawaiian princess gives admissions preference to Native Hawaiian applicants

The Independent UK

Supreme Court Issues Dubious "Shadow Docket" Ruling Staying Injunction Against Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement

There is no majority opinion, so the reasoning is unclear. But Justice Kavanaugh's concurring opinion undercuts principle that government must abjure racial discrimination.

Reason

Affirmative Action and the Dangers of Motivated Legal Reasoning

National Review reports that the Justice Department announced that it found my university, George Mason, in violation of Title VI:… The post Affirmative Action and the Dangers of Motivated Legal Reasoning appeared first on Reason.com.

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Trump administration freezes $339M in UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations

The Trump administration is freezing $339 million in research grants to the University of California, Los Angeles, accusing the school of civil rights violations related to antisemitism, affirmative action and women’s sports

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Trump administration opens investigation into Minnesota agency's affirmative action policy

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Human Services over its newly updated affirmative action hiring policy

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Lula expands Brazil's affirmative action quotas for Indigenous and Black communities

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies

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Bigotry, Hypocrisy, and Trump's Admission of Afrikaners as Refugees

The Administration isn't wrong to admit white South African migrants. But it is wrong to exclude all other refugees, including many fleeing far worse discrimination and oppression.

International Business Times

India To Ask Caste Status In Next Census For First Time In Decades

India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics and contentious affirmative action policies.

The Guardian - US

American corporations didn’t want to diversify, anyway

After the murder of George Floyd, many companies turned to diversity initiatives that weren’t actually designed to bring change. That’s why they’re dropping them as quickly as they created them

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US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions

The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy

The Conversation

We analyzed racial justice statements from the 500 largest US companies and found that DEI officials really did have an influence

In 2020, American businesses responded to an unprecedented wave of racial justice protests with an equally unprecedented surge in corporate commitments. Even as President Donald Trump was calling protesters “terrorists,” companies in industries across the U.S. pledged donations, launched diversity initiatives and issued statements in support of equity and inclusion.

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Texas’ DEI debate centers on a disagreement about whether programs perpetuate or prevent discrimination

Supporters say diversity initiatives close educational and income gaps born from a history of prejudice. Republican officials say they prioritize identity over merit.

Reason

Dean Treanor and Georgetown's First Amendment rights

Dean Treanor is right to assert Georgetown's First Amendment right to "teach DEI" in the face of Trump Administration threats.

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Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 4

The final post in my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

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Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 3

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

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Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

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