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Fresh Takes on Law, IQ and Race

Fresh Takes on Law, IQ and RaceNew Scholarly Books Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race TheoryFrancisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp and Angela P. Harris, eds.Temple University Press, 2002, 528 pp., $79.50 cloth, $29.95 paperISBN 1-56639-929-7 (cloth)ISBN 1-56639-930-0 (paper) When the eminent legal scholar Derrick Bell left Harvard Law School in 1992, worn down by […]

November 20, 2002

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When the Personal Is Political: Telling and Selling Our Stories

When the Personal Is Political: Telling and Selling Our StoriesBy Julianne Malveaux Anthony Samad is a Los Angeles-based political scientist, economic developer and political activist. He has written a weekly column in California for more than a decade, focusing on social, political and race issues affecting African Americans. For all of his accomplishments, the greater […]

November 20, 2002

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Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race By Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAcademic officials and policy-makers from the United States and the European Commission convened the first two of three planned conferences last month aimed at solving problems of racial discrimination and xenophobia in Europe and the United States. Although organizers say the conferences grew largely out of a […]

November 6, 2002

Opponents Ask Supreme Court to Hear Admissions Case

Opponents Ask Supreme Court to Hear Admissions CaseWASHINGTONWhite students rejected for admission to the University of Michigan appealed to the Supreme Court early this month, asking the justices to decide an emotional affirmative action case without waiting for a lower court to rule. The two would-be undergraduates claim they were unconstitutionally denied admission because of […]

October 23, 2002

A Tale of Three Cities

A Tale of Three CitiesLatino candidates fall short in three hotly contested mayoral racesPolitical operatives in Los Angeles, New York City and Houston should not have been blamed if they thought 2001 would be the year of the Latino. In each city, a Latino candidate mounted a vigorous campaign for mayor; in each city strong […]

September 25, 2002

Survey Examines Careers of Black Harvard Law Grads

Survey Examines Careers of Black Harvard Law GradsCAMBRIDGE, Mass.A new survey demonstrates that Black Harvard Law alumni have achieved impressive professional success despite the fact that discrimination based both on race and gender remains an obstacle in today’s workplace. The research, conducted by the Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, also indicates that Black […]

August 28, 2002

Supreme Court Asked To Hear University Of Michigan Case

Supreme Court Asked To Hear University Of Michigan CaseANN ARBOR, Mich.A group that sued to overturn minority preferences in University of Michigan law school admissions has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 5-4 on May 14 that the Michigan law school’s […]

August 28, 2002

University of Georgia Continues To Retool Admissions Policy

University of Georgia Continues To Retool Admissions PolicyBut still no consideration of raceATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia’s fall 2003 admissions policy will emphasize applicants’ academic achievement, with some modifications from the fall 2002 process, according to UGA officials. But the new policy still will not consider race.Last year, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]

August 28, 2002

K-12 Plan Draws Concern on Race Data

K-12 Plan Draws Concern on Race DataPresident Bush’s new K-12 education reform law places more attention than ever before on differences between racial and ethnic groups, an education and affirmative action expert says. Yet the Education Department’s first steps toward implementation “already raises some concerns,” according to Christopher Edley.Appearing before a House of Representatives’ panel […]

August 28, 2002

NAACP Opposes California Initiative To Bar Racial Classifying

NAACP Opposes California Initiative To Bar Racial ClassifyingHOUSTONThe NAACP voted last month to oppose a ballot initiative that would bar the state of California from classifying residents by race.The resolution to oppose University of California regent Ward Connerly’s “Racial Privacy Initiative” and similar ballot measures was approved by delegates at the National Association for the […]

July 31, 2002

Class Matters for Economic Prosperity

Class Matters for Economic ProsperityWhen William Julius Wilson wrote The Declining Significance of Race in 1978, he garnered headlines. White America gleefully interpreted his book to mean that “race didn’t matter” anymore. Some African Americans treated him as badly as Islamic fundamentalists treated Salman Rushdie, pretty much calling him a traitor and a heretic and […]

July 3, 2002

Federal Court Upholds UW Law School’s Use of Race

Federal Court Upholds UW Law School’s Use of RaceSEATTLEA federal judge has ruled that the University of Washington Law School didn’t illegally discriminate against three White applicants when it denied them admission in the mid-1990s. As a result, Katuria Smith, Angela Rock and Michael Pyle — who became poster children for the campaign to pass […]

July 3, 2002

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