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Sleet to become first black chief judge of Del. federal court

WILMINGTON Del. For Gregory M. Sleet, becoming chief judge of Delaware’s federal court is the latest in a career full of milestones.

June 26, 2007

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Pryor urges Bush to nominate black judge to federal bench

LITTLE ROCK U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor urged President Bush on Wednesday to nominate a black judge to fill the federal judgeship in Arkansas left vacant with the death of U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr., the state’s first black federal judge.

June 26, 2007

STEM

U.S. Supreme Court turns away tax challenge in Ala. deseg case

BIRMINGHAM Ala. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to Alabama’s property tax system that was filed by plaintiffs in the state’s long-running higher education desegregation case.

June 26, 2007

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Bosnians become U.S. citizens after suing the government for the right

ST. LOUIS After nearly eight years in the United States and a court fight with the government, Bosnian war refugee Adila Palalija can finally call herself an American.

June 26, 2007

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Affirmative Action Debate: Clegg vs. Shaw

WASHINGTON, D.C. The debate over whether racial diversity can be a “compelling interest” to justify the use of race in public school admissions will come to an end this week when the U.S. Supreme Court rules in two cases on voluntary desegregation.

June 26, 2007

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Truth, curricula, and the educational way – need to include whole truth in school curricula

Are there degrees of truth? Yes. Most curricula tell the truth, but they may not tell the whole truth.

June 23, 2007

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Journey to Justice. – book reviews

As a reluctant spectator of the year-and-a-half-long O.J. Simpson murder trial, one of the most difficult tasks for me was to keep my personal distress over this particularly disturbing case separate from my regard for the many fine African-American attorneys involved on both sides of the bar.

June 23, 2007

Latinx

Students vow to oppose Proposition 209 – special report: health sciences

The weekend after the elections, approximately 1,600 Chicano students met at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) for the regularly scheduled fall statewide MEChA conference.

June 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Appreciation: Louis Westerfield, 1949-1996 – Obituary

On August 2-4. 1996. Louis Westerfield — law school dean at three schools, law professor at four schools, author, judge, community leader, and dedicated family man — died of a heart attack in New Orleans.

June 22, 2007

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Supreme Court to Rule on Kentucky, Seattle School Integration Cases

WASHINGTON Nearly seven months have passed since the Supreme Court heard arguments about public school integration plans. A decision, it seems, is finally at hand.

June 22, 2007

Latinx

President’s Hispanic education commission releases report

The long-awaited report by the President’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans was finally released last month with few surprises and a grim picture for both Latinos and the nation.

June 22, 2007

LGBTQ+

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.

June 20, 2007