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☆ Supreme Court's conservative majority seems open to eliminating affirmative action in university admissions process: 'Why do you have these boxes?'
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
The Supreme Court heard two high-profile challenges to race-conscious university admissions processes. The court's conservatives appeared open to ending race as a factor in university admissions. Thomas, the second Black person to ever serve on the bench, has long been critical of race-conscious admissions policies. They cannot adopt race-conscious admissions and sit back reflexively and let that play out forever into the future," Prelogar said. "At present, it's not possible to achieve that diversity without race-conscious admissions, including at the nation's service academies."
☆ Supreme Court to Revisit University Affirmative-Action Programs
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jess Bravin | Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The University of North Carolina has said that narrow consideration of race is necessary to achieving a diverse student body. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday on whether race can play a role when administrators decide who is admitted to many of the nation’s colleges and universities. The court will hear two separate cases, expected to yield two related rulings by July, involving a state flagship, the University of North Carolina, and a private Ivy League institution, Harvard College. Both say having a diverse student body is central to their educational mission, and that narrow consideration of race is necessary to achieving it.
☆ The Supreme Court and Racial Preferences
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A great triumph of 20th-century American government was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It broke the back of Jim Crow and reasserted the principle that no one should be discriminated against for his race. The Supreme Court has a chance to reaffirm that vital American principle on Monday when it hears challenges to the admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina). The case is an important moment for American law but even more for the country’s social and political future. Yet rather than assimilate this melting pot with race-neutral principles, many in our political class want to divide America into racial categories, allocating jobs, benefits and even elections based on race.
☆ The U.S. has never had a lesbian governor. These two women could change that.
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Matt Lavietes | Matt Lavietes Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
And in 2014 she broke barriers again, becoming the nation’s first out lesbian elected state attorney general. Nearly 3,000 miles west, Kotek became the country’s first out lesbian speaker of a state House of Representatives in 2013. This coming Election Day, these lesbian trailblazers could shatter glass ceilings once more, simultaneously becoming the first out lesbians ever elected governor in the United States. Kate Brown, who is bisexual and became the first openly LGBTQ person to be elected governor in 2015, and Colorado Gov. This past summer, some of those threats were pointedly directed at the LGBTQ community in Massachusetts’ state capital.
☆ Side-by-side photographic glass plates and James Webb images show how telescope technology has evolved since the 1800s
  + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers catalogued the universe on glass photographic plates. Compared to faint objects stamped on plates, the James Webb Space Telescope's images show dramatic improvements in telescope technology. The exposures were made on glass plates coated with photosensitive emulsions, with astronomers later developing the plates like film in a darkroom. Compared with Webb's infrared images, photographic plates of the same parts of the night sky show how developments in technology led to clearer and deeper views of the cosmos. Webb's clear views of interacting galaxies offer sharper detail than faint glass plate imagesA glass plate image of Stephan's Quintet taken in 1974, left.
☆ Black women in the legal world celebrate Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic Supreme Court nomination as a 'victory' for all Americans
  + stars: | 2022-03-03 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
The two were enrolled in the same classes, both members of the Black Law Students Association, and lived in the same dormitory building. Black women in the legal world celebrated Jackson's Supreme Court nomination, a milestone that they said marks significant progress for their representation in the legal field, but also for the country as a whole. Installing judges of diverse backgrounds can better ensure the legal system is working equitably for all Americans, Black women in the legal field told Insider. "Now when I tell her, 'You could be a Supreme Court justice,' she can look at the Supreme Court and think, 'Yes, I could, there's someone there who looks like me.'" MoveOnORG activists call for the immediate confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court on February 25.
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