September 4, 2024 by V Leigh

Elite US colleges see Black enrollment drop after affirmative action strike-down

Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has… pic.twitter.com/88MXA5DYFu
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) September 1, 2024

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One of America’s top universities, MIT, is revealing how its student body has changed after the SCOTUS eliminated affirmative action from admission decisions, with Black and Hispanic students seeing the largest drops in admissions. @RehemaEllis reports. https://t.co/sGV1seOqzJ
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) September 2, 2024

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“The share of Black students at Amherst College for the incoming freshman class decreased by eight percentage points, from 11% last year to 3% this year, the data showed. The percentage of Hispanic students dropped from 12% to 8%.”https://t.co/DC98J3CsMK
— Global Black Studies at Duke (@DukeAAAS) September 3, 2024

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June 30, 2023 by V Leigh

The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission https://cnn.it/3r3akxr

The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission https://t.co/nrMV4MBQGt pic.twitter.com/g8hjjVBGjE
— CNN (@CNN) June 29, 2023

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BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared affirmative action unconstitutional, in a case involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://t.co/FzrJ9yz0ih
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 29, 2023

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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education. https://t.co/qCOtkgbxQO pic.twitter.com/jv4l1qxcyq
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 29, 2023

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Justice Jackson, dissenting: “Our country has never been colorblind. Given the lengthy history of state-sponsored race-based preferences in America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its… https://t.co/AUQlw5fR0o
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 29, 2023

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Sotomayor’s dissent: “Ignoring race will not equalize a society that is racially unequal. What was true in the 1860s, and again in 1954, is true today: Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality.” https://t.co/q7b25WE8OI
— Monica Torres (@monicatorrr) June 29, 2023

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What a terrible day for our country and for working people. America’s unions are deeply disappointed by today’s decision from the Supreme Court to reverse the longstanding precedent of affirmative action. https://t.co/w4PUpVDF4t
— AFL-CIO ✊ (@AFLCIO) June 29, 2023

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“Today, the Supreme Court upended 50 years of precedent to make access to higher education more difficult for students of color. Access to higher education is a labor issue.”https://t.co/E24dUc4z2X
— UAW (@UAW) June 29, 2023

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Today’s racist affirmative action decision by the Supreme Court is another nail in the coffin of this institution’s legitimacy. There is no such thing as a “race-neutral” admissions process. Plain and simple.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 29, 2023

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January 14, 2016 by Oppression Monitor

Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System by Stanford Alumni Association [VIDEO]

Watch Stanford Alumni Association’s 1/13 Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System on Livestream.com. Roundtable conversation featuring Bryan Stevenson, Jennifer Eberhardt, Gary Segura, Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, and Katie Couric. OpenXChange is a year-long, student-focused initiative on campus that aims to encourage meaningful dialogue around tough issues. This is the first in a series of discussions with Stanford faculty and global experts on criminal justice, inequality and international conflict.

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Bryan Stevenson is a power house for social justice. He’s a defense attorney and author with 21 honorary doctorate degrees. Listen closely to what he’s telling us. The auditorium was packed, including the overflow room. I was sent away with this link to the live stream.

November 13, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

#BlackOnCampus

#BlackOnCampus (2015) is a Twitter hashtag that went viral this week in the wake of protests against racism at US universities – Yale, Mizzou and, now, at Ithaca College. In all three cases, those in authority refused to face up to the racism at their universities.

Racism at universities is nothing new: PWIs (Predominately White Institutions) have always been racist. First by not admitting Blacks at all, then by making them and other students of colour feel unwelcomed and unsafe, turning a blind eye to the racism they face, writing it off as “isolated incidents”, being “oversensitive” and so on.

Black Twitter weighs in:

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November 13, 2015 by V Leigh

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.12

Hunger strike, football strike, protests produce a dramatic, likely unprecedented, result at #Mizzou https://t.co/5pbzqETIKf

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 9, 2015

Federal agents bust up plot by Virginia white supremacists to shoot up black churches to start a race war https://t.co/SgUZ3Amh8n

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) November 10, 2015

BREAKING: Driven to hospital, Virginia man tased, shackled and dies in police custody. Our investigation: https://t.co/5G5latvtef #VATasing

— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) November 11, 2015

#BlackOnCampus highlights racism on college campuses across the country: https://t.co/i36kRawCLG pic.twitter.com/QblC05BI5A

— ABC News (@ABC) November 12, 2015

November 9, 2015 by V Leigh

#BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou Tweets 11.8

Missouri football players vow to boycott in protest of university president's handling of racial tensions on campus https://t.co/2YZD9bZ2fq

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 8, 2015

mizzou is showing u what the "or else" looks like, right now.

— a (@nonbinarynegro) November 8, 2015

RT @GaryPinkel: The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players. #ConcernedStudent1950 GP pic.twitter.com/JPZTCFXOAr

— Baltimore BLOC (@BmoreBloc) November 8, 2015

September 25, 2015 by V Leigh

#NativeAmerican Tweets 9.25

Please Sign and Share: Cal State: require Professor who denies genocide to attend Native students forum… https://t.co/yxDbKEZdLU

— Delores Schilling (@DelSchilling) September 18, 2015

November 20, 2014 by Oppression Monitor

Gunman opens fire in Florida State University library; 3 wounded

Gunman wounds 3 people on Florida State University’s campus Thursday morning before being killed by police.

Source: www.cnn.com

October 14, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

An Introduction to Settler Colonialism at UBC

This three-part series on settler colonialism is co-authored between two people: one who identifies as a michif (Métis) man from Saskatoon, the other who identifies as a racialized, non-Indigenous female settler. As co-authors, we are speaking from our own perspectives as an Indigenous person (Justin) and as a settler (Kay).

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Source: unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com

October 1, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

German universities scrap all tuition fees

“All German universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge.

“Tuition fees are socially unjust,” said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012. “They particularly discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up studies. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany.”

Source: www.thetimes.co.uk

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