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Harvard students protesting on July 1, 2023, after the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

July 7, 2023

Affirmative action lasted over 50 years: 3 essential reads explaining how it ended

Howard Manly, The Conversation

The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action programs reverses nearly 50 years of its own decisions that ruled diversity was of vital national importance.

President Lyndon Johnson delivers the commencement address at Howard University on June 4, 1965.

June 6, 2023

Supreme Court is poised to dismantle an integral part of LBJ’s Great Society – affirmative action

Travis Knoll, University of North Carolina – Charlotte

President Lyndon Johnson’s commencement address at Howard University in 1965 offered a compelling argument on the need for affirmative action. His policies have been challenged ever since.

The Supreme Court is deciding a case on whether, and how, universities may consider an applicant’s race when making admissions decisions. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

November 7, 2022

What is affirmative action, anyway? 4 essential reads

Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation and Jeff Inglis, The Conversation

Scholars explain what affirmative action is – and isn’t – as well as what its effects are, and why, among others, the military has supported it for decades.

The U.S. Supreme Court in its official portrait on Oct. 7, 2022. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

November 1, 2022

Conservative US Supreme Court reconsidering affirmative action, leaving the use of race in college admissions on the brink of extinction

Travis Knoll, University of North Carolina – Charlotte

The US Supreme Court is poised to determine the fate of the use of race in college admissions. Supporters of affirmative action, like the military, fear the worst.

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