President Biden announced new funding and resources to enhance school diversity and tackle racial segregation, including a $20 million investment in magnet schools and the creation of a Technical Assistance Center on Fiscal Equity, in an effort to fulfill the promise of equitable education for all.
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Supreme Court to decide whether communities can penalize homeless for sleeping in public
The Supreme Court is considering a case that will determine whether cities can punish the unhoused for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go, and whether it violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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SCOTUS punts on race and schools case
By Joseph Williams Word In Black Less than a year after the Supreme Court voided race-based admissions policies in top colleges, diversity advocates breathed a sigh of relief when the high court passed on hearing a challenge to an initiative to bring more Black students to an elite Virginia magnet school. But experts warn that the […]
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A Supreme Court decision could come March 4 in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as March 4 in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado […]
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Supreme Court to decide if cities can punish homelessnessÂ
By Lisa WoelfCapital News Service More homeless people than ever sleep on the streets. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if local governments can punish homeless people who sleep or camp outside when no shelter beds are available, or if such laws violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The issue came […]
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The Supreme Court leaves admissions plan at an elite Virginia public high school in place
By The Associated Press The Supreme Court on Feb. 20 left in place the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that some parents claimed discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. The court’s order, over the dissent of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, ended a legal challenge to a policy that […]
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 Supreme Court hears Colorado’s challenge to Trump’s candidacy
By Catherine Pugh Special to the AFRO “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the […]
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Supreme Court is urged to rule Trump is ineligible to be president again because of the Jan. 6 riot
By Mark ShermanThe Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, lawyers leading the fight to keep him off the ballot told the justices on […]
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DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace
By Anne D’Innocenzio and Alexandra OlsonAP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses. Section 1981 of the act was originally meant to protect formerly enslaved people — […]
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Conservative Gorsuch Emulates Scalia Minus the Rough Edges
WASHINGTON (AP) — If confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch would fill the seat of the man he seeks to emulate as a judge. He would be the first justice to serve alongside a colleague for whom he worked. Gorsuch described his former boss, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Tuesday as one of […]