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President and CEO of the NAACP, Derrick Johnson, said that "affirmative action exists because we cannot rely on colleges, universities, and employers to enact admissions and hiring practices that embrace diversity, equity and inclusion," and that "Race plays an undeniable role in shaping the identities of and quality of life for Black Americans ...
The steep decline follows the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions. Harvard was a defendant named in one of the lawsuits brought by Students for Fair ...
Black student enrollment at Harvard Law took a nosedive after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions last year. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on affirmative ...
As of 2024, affirmative action rhetoric has been increasingly replaced by emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion and nine states explicitly ban its use in the employment process. [10] [11] The Supreme Court in 2023 explicitly rejected race-based affirmative action in college admissions in Students for Fair
[1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that affirmative action programs in college admissions (excepting military academies) are unconstitutional. SFFA has been described by its opponents as an anti-affirmative action group that objects to the use of race as one of the factors in college ...
BOSTON (AP) — There was a slight decline in the number of Black students in Harvard University’s freshman class, the first admitted since a Supreme Court ruling struck down affirmative action ...
The Class of 2028 is 14% Black, compared with 18% last year, Harvard said, while the share of Hispanic students ticked up slightly from 14% to 16%. Harvard, one of the world's most elite ...
A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of ...