Affirmative
The Dave Barclay Affirmative Action Award is named after one of BEYA’s pioneers in the defense industry. Barclay was a corporate officer and advocate for workforce diversity in the 1990s. The award celebrates individuals who have shown a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Allan G. Sonsteby is the executive director of the […]
Money was tight the day Brian Weber was born in his family’s living room, nine months after his dad returned from World War II. He would be the fourth brother of five. His father worked at the sugar mill, one of the many plants lining the Mississippi River above New Orleans, before he finally scraped together enough to start […]
Story Highlights Most older Black adults view the court’s decision in firmly negative light But younger Black Americans are more positive about the decision Older Black adults also foresee problems, while younger adults are mixed WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the public has broadly positive views on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling […]
Kent Nishimura/The Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Black adults views on last year’s Supreme Court ruling that colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in granting admissions are split. CNN — While a majority of Americans of all races see the end of affirmative action as “mostly a good thing,” there is a generational split among Black […]
CNN — Lynijah Russell debated the opening lines of her video application to Brown University for weeks before deciding to be as candid about her identity as possible. “Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a Black girl in STEM,” she says in the application’s opening line.
American medical schools are confronting their first major challenge since the US Supreme Court’s June decision to outlaw race-based college admissions. As medical schools sift through their first round of applications since the ruling, there’s already a nascent response to diminish the impact on the pipeline of future Black doctors. Source link
Several news events captured our attention in 2023 and drove conversations in our community. On one hand, the Supreme Court defended the rights of Black voters but then rolled back decades of efforts to diversify college campuses. In 2023, the Tennessee House of Representatives captured national attention in a political showdown between young Black lawmakers […]
For Briana Jones, a young Black mother in San Francisco, a city program called the Abundant Birth Project has been a godsend. Designed to counter the “obstetric racism” that researchers say leads a disproportionate number of African American mothers to die from childbirth, the project has provided 150 pregnant Black and Pacific Islander San . . .
The term “affirmative action” has a long history in the United States. One early reference appears in an executive order that President John F. Kennedy signed in 1961, directing federal contractors to “take affirmative action” to prevent discrimination against job applicants and employees on the basis of race or other factors. Today, affirmative action generally […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on a high school admissions policy that parents believe is discriminatory. On Monday (August 21), a group called Coalition for TJ, which includes Asian Americans filed a petition seeking the court to decide if Alexandria, Va., charter school Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and […]