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Reparations, slavery, California, college admissions, theGrio.com
December 3, 2024
Democratic Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said the bill would help rectify past and current discrimination at universities.
College admissions, affirmative action, student enrollment, Black student enrollment declining, theGrio.com
October 23, 2024
Data is starting to show the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action.
College admissions process, HBCUs, HBCU admissions, college applications, Howard University, The Mecca, Black colleges and universities, H.U., Black in college, Black college students, theGrio.com
September 5, 2023
For Miles Marshall Lewis, the college admissions process resulted in sending his son to excel at an HBCU — and letting him…
November 18, 2022
The University of California, Berkeley's law school on Thursday joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out…
edward blum -- Black women business grants
November 1, 2022
Blum has devoted his life to fighting and destroying racially conscious laws meant to even the playing field.
November 1, 2022
The Supreme Court's six conservative justices all expressed doubts about affirmative action, and its liberals defended the programs.
January 26, 2022
Albany, Georgia native and 4.0 student Kenyari Sawyer has been accepted into 48 colleges and received over $600K in scholarships.
June 13, 2021
With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the Supreme Court mulls adding a third blockbuster issue on role of…
University of Kentucky thegrio.com
April 11, 2021
The University of Kentucky extends apologies to nearly half a million high school seniors after mistakenly emailing them acceptance letters.
April 4, 2021
Designer Mossimo Giannulli has been released from prison and is under home confinement after his role in a college admissions…
November 17, 2020
Jie "Jack" Zhao of the telecom firm iTalk Global Communications reportedly channeled money to former Harvard fencing coach Peter Brand.
October 31, 2020
Full House actress Lori Loughlin began her sentence in a California federal prison for her role in the college admissions…
August 14, 2020
The Department of Justice declared that Yale University’s admissions process is discriminatory against white and Asian American applicants.
August 1, 2019
Aftershocks from the widespread college admissions scandal reveal that one girl pretended to be African American on her applications and…
Kim Kardashian thegrio.com
April 22, 2019
“If they couldn't get into a school, I would never want to use privilege to try to force them into…
March 15, 2019
John Legend has proven that he is not afraid to speak out about controversial topics and on Thursday, he gave…
Michael Brown thegrio.com
April 2, 2018
Meet Michael Brown, a 17-year-old senior at Lamar High School in Houston, who applied to 20 colleges and universities, including…
August 2, 2017
The department would use its resources toward investigating and suing universities over policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.
June 23, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major victory for affirmative action, a divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the University of…
December 11, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, famous for his blustery rhetoric from the bench and beyond, finds…