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Hundreds of people participate in a march and rally for affirmative action September 16, 2006 in Lansing, Michigan. The march was designed to oppose Proposal 2 on the Michigan ballot, which will be voted on November 7th. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Appeals court stays Mich. affirmative action ban

Corey Williams, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) - The ruling that ended Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions was put on hold Friday until the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear an appeal by the state's attorney general...
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Hundreds of people participate in a march and rally for affirmative action September 16, 2006 in Lansing, Michigan. The march was designed to oppose Proposal 2 on the Michigan ballot, which will be voted on November 7th. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Michigan affirmative action ban struck down

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - On Thursday, a federal appeals court threw out Michigan's controversial voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college admissions and public hiring...
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Future of affirmative action in doubt

Mark Sherman, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election campaign...
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Urban Prep grads all college-bound again

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Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have been accepted to college for the third straight year in a row...
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Affirmative action ruling could hurt black students

Alvin Tillery
OPINION - The fact that most African-Americans have not benefited from affirmative action programs in university admissions and does not reduce the cause for alarm about a negative ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas...
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Court hears challenge to CA affirmative action ban

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Backers of affirmative action asked a federal appeals court Monday to overturn California's 15-year-old ban on considering race in public college admissions...
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Should a white majority sign off on affirmative action?

Lawrence C. Ross
OPINION - Are African-Americans, Latinos and other racial minorities unduly hurt by the referendum process, when the public policy is focuses on them?...
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