By Omar Melhem, UPI Correspondent
Published 4/2/2003 6:19 PM
WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) — The president of Columbia University — speaking the day after Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action — said Wednesday he views affirmative action as the most important civil rights issue in the country.
Columbia’s Lee Bollinger added that he supports affirmative action in academia, […]
By Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer
March 10, 2003, 4:21 PM EST
CHICAGO — Most blacks with high blood pressure need aggressive treatment, including at least two drugs to effectively control hypertension, new guidelines say.
The recommendations from the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks are billed as the first-ever high blood pressure guidelines specifically for blacks, who are […]
By Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer
March 10, 2003, 4:23 PM EST
CHICAGO — Disabling chronic health conditions are more prevalent and have risen at a faster rate in black children than in whites nationwide, a disparity largely explained by poverty, a study suggests.
The results are based on annual national health surveys from 1979 to 2000 that asked […]
According to an AP wire report, the mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, abolished a program which gave preference, in awarding city contracts, to businesses owned by minorities and by women. The major preemptively gutted the program because, in his estimation, it would not be likely to withstand a court order, despite being 25 years […]
According to AP reports of a Harvard University study, U.S. schools are becoming more, rather than less segregated:
Public schools are slipping back into racial segregation, according to a study by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
Released on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the nationwide analysis of enrollments from the 2000-2001 school […]
President Bush plans to declare his opposition to University of Michigan admissions policies that give preference to black and Hispanic students, injecting the White House into the Supreme Court’s most far-reaching affirmative action case in a generation, administration officials said yesterday.
The officials said Bush, who faces a deadline Thursday for registering opposition with the high […]
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Recently a very impoverished set of excuses and defenses has been
offered up on Trent Lott’s behalf. According to Lott’s defenders and
apologists, his critics are “overreacting” and “hurting America”; they
“prevent Americans from focusing on important issues” and “obviously
fail to understand Southern culture” or fail to understand “the
informal context” of Lott’s racist comments.
Lott’s critics would have been […]
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would decide whether race-conscious university admissions procedures intended to promote racial and ethnic diversity illegally discriminate against white applicants — setting the stage for a historic battle at the court over access to American higher education.
At issue are claims by prospective students who say they were rejected by […]
LONDON — The government’s plan to overhaul and tighten Britain’s asylum and immigration system was approved by both houses of Parliament on Thursday.
Home Secretary David Blunkett said the new law, which allows officials to detain asylum seekers in special accommodation centers for up to six months, “put in place a more effective, reasonable, sensible and […]