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HBCUs

U.S. Civil Rights Commission Condemns Affirmative Action In Law School Admissions

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is condemning affirmative action in law school admissions and calling on Congress to mandate law schools to publicly disclose their use of racial preferences in a report that critics say relies heavily on the questionable research of one anti-affirmative action advocate.

September 9, 2007

STEM

King calls for support for ‘Jena Six’

JENA La. Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the famed civil rights leader, urged a crowd Tuesday night to use the ballot box to change a local justice system where six black teenagers face the possibility of decades in prison for attacking a white classmate.

August 14, 2007

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Nifong complains about NC State Bar’s handling of his ethics case

RALEIGH N.C. When former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong mailed in his law license last week, he also included a note bemoaning “the fundamental unfairness” of the North Carolina State Bar’s handling of his ethics case.

August 14, 2007

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New Briefs

LeMoyne-Owen received enough cash to start classes on time; Newark shooting claims Delaware State students; civil rights attorney Oliver Hill, who argued Brown v Board of Education, dies at age 100.

August 5, 2007

Students

Dustup Over Racial Slur Comes at Delicate Time for Young Law School

PROVIDENCE, R.I. The law school at Roger Williams University is a relative infant among peers, opened less than 15 years ago and angling ever since to elevate its national profile and climb the rankings ladder.

July 21, 2007

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In Turkey, Complaining About High School Exams Can Land You In Court

ISTANBUL Turkey As punk rock goes, a song bemoaning a high school exam hardly sounds like the stuff of anarchy. But in Turkey it can land you in court, as an Istanbul rock band has discovered.

July 15, 2007

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New Conspiracy Theory Concerning Disenfranchisement

Dear Editor: As an avid reader of the magazine, I read the article in the October 29, 1998 issue — titled, “The Tuskegee Experiment’s Long Shadow” — and find that I am also a victim of the conspiracy theories concerning African Americans: I had heard the rumor about the fifth digit in a person’s social security number indicating whether you are African American or not and I sort of believed it.

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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Trial Set for September in Fisk Dispute Over Works Donated by O’Keeffe

NASHVILLE Tenn. A Tennessee judge has postponed a trial to determine whether Fisk University can sell any of the 101 works of art donated by artist Georgia O’Keeffe in 1949.

July 12, 2007

Students

Minority enrollment creeps upward at Texas universities: new recruitment strategies and the 10 percent law credited with upturn

AUSTIN, Texas Black and Latino enrollments are beginning to edge upward again at public universities in Texas after the severe drop caused by the 1996 Hopwood decision, which dismantled affirmative action at Texas’s public universities.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Texas A&M Affiliation With Law School Denied

HOUSTON Texas A&M University should drop its affiliation with the private South Texas College of Law and instead get permission to establish its own law school, higher education officials say.

July 12, 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