President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum aimed at stopping race-based admissions policies once and for all by ordering colleges and universities that receive federal funds to provide expansive data about how they accept applicants.
A school watchdog group is filing a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education against the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) over an alleged race-based scholarship.
Harvard University released a statement and a video address shortly after the Supreme Court delivered a ruling dashing the school’s race-based admissions process on Thursday, saying that while the school “will comply” with the decision, it does not change their belief that race should be considered in the admissions process.
America First Legal (AFL) announced on Thursday that it asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to launch a Civil Rights investigation into Lyft’s abortion and diversity policies “to combat discrimination against women who bear children.”
A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Thursday against Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over the agency’s “anti-racism” plan that “inject race-based decision making into our health care system.”
The Canadian advisory committee on immunisation has said the government should prioritise adults from “racialised communities” for the “second stage” of the country’s Wuhan coronavirus vaccination plan.
