Alumni of many colleges are wrestling with whether the practice of legacy admissions should survive after the Supreme Court gutted race-based admissions programs.
Tag: Black People
-
Florida’s New Black History Standards Have Drawn Backlash. Who Wrote Them?
In updating the standards to comply with a new law that limits how racism can be taught, officials largely bypassed the state’s African American History Task Force.
-
Ron DeSantis Wants to Tell the Future by Controlling the Past
The history we teach to students in the present is as much about the country we hope to be as it is a record of the country we once were.
-
More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives
The biggest reason so many Americans can’t swim is that they have too few places to learn how.
-
Shane McCrae, the Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet
At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.